Fauvism

thumb|250px|alt=Henri Matisse painting Woman with a Hat, from 1905. in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art|Henri Matisse. Woman with a Hat, 1905. [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]]

Fauvism ( ) is a style of painting and an art movement that emerged in France at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the style of '''' (, the wild beasts''), a group of modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1904 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1905–1908, and had three exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were André Derain and Henri Matisse.