fauvism

Noun

fauvism (uncountable)

1. 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...1999, Daniel J. Singal, William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist, Univ of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 71