[fohv] 
(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. |
| fau·vism (fō'vĭz'əm) n. An early-20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors. [French fauvisme, from fauve, wild animal, from fauve, wild, reddish-yellow, from Old French falve, reddish-yellow, from Frankish *falw-; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.] fau'vist adj. |