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fauve|fəʊv|
Also with capital initial.
[Fr., lit. ‘wild beast’.]
A member of a movement in painting, chiefly associated with Henri Matisse (1869–1954), which flourished in Paris from 1905, and which is mainly characterized by a vivid use of colour. Also attrib. or as adj., and transf. Hence (as adj.), of a bright or vivid colour. So ˈfauvism [F. fauvisme], the practice of this style of painting; ˈfauvist(e) [F. fauviste], an adherent of fauvism; also as adj.
The name was coined by the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles at the Autumn Salon of 1905; coming across a quattrocento-like statue in the midst of works by Matisse and his associates, he remarked, ‘Donatello au milieu des fauves!’
1915Wyndham Lewis in Blast July 23/1 May the mortality amongst Cubists, Carnivorists, Fauvists and Vorticists at the front be excessive. Ibid. 77/2 Mr. Adeney, in pallid and solidified landscapes, brings us back to the ‘Fauves’. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 6/1 Symbolism and Fauvism. Ibid. 6/2 The application of the fauviste recipe to the painting of fashionable Parisian society. 1932Times 12 Mar., He was one of the group of Scottish painters who threw in their lot with the ‘Fauves’..and..the result was a rather interesting blend of fauviste and Glasgow School characteristics. 1942Burlington Mag. Feb. 51/2 The quasi-primitiveness of Gauguin or the Fauvistes. 1953Ann. Reg. 1952 380 ‘The Pool of London’, a colourful painting by André Derain from his fauve period. 1958Observer 15 June 15/2 Ann Jellicoe and N. F. Simpson, the most disturbing of fauve humorists. 1959Listener 8 Oct. 565/1 The truly decisive break to France, to Matisse and liberation by the Fauves. 1959H. Read Conc. Hist. Mod. Painting ii. 34 In Paris the painters who reacted against Impressionism were known as ‘les fauves’ (the wild beasts), a name first used as a witticism by the critic Louis Vauxcelles at the time of the Autumn Salon of 1905. The name was apt because the means used by these painters were decidedly violent. 1960Guardian 14 Nov. 7/3 The fauvist intensity of her colour—the red and yellow..conflicting hotly with the virulent greens. 1960New Left Rev. Nov.–Dec. 59/1 It seems probable that [Picasso's] Les Demoiselles was designed..as a counterblast to recent trends in fauvism. 1967Vogue June 101 Striking fauve flowered coat. |