fauvism
noun
- artistic style that emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From French fauvisme, attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles.
- An artistic movement of the first decade of the 20th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.
“Paris had been the birthplace of the Modernist sensibility during the latter half of the previous century, when its cafés, studios and tolerant atmosphere helped nurture the symbolist school in poetry and impressionism in painting. By the start of the First World War, it had sheltered fauvism, cubism, expressionism, vorticism, and a host of other splinter movements through which the emerging culture gradually took shape.”