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Definitions for Fauve

[1] (sometimes lowercase ) any of a group of French artists of the early 20th century whose works are characterized chiefly by the use of vivid colors in immediate juxtaposition and contours usually in marked contrast to the color of the area defined.
[2] one of a group of French painters prominent from 1905, including Matisse, Vlaminck, and Derain, characterized by the use of bright colours and simplified forms
[3] (often not capital) of this group or its style

Origin of Fauve

1910–15; < French: wild beast, noun use of fauve wild, literally, tawny < Germanic; see fallow2

Other words from Fauve

Fauv·ism , noun
Fauv·ist , noun

Word origin for Fauve

C20: from French, literally: wild beast, alluding to the violence of colours, etc