[fohv] /foʊv/

/French fov/
(often not capital) of this group or its style

movement in painting associated with Henri Matisse, 1915, from French fauve, “wild beast” (12c., in Old French “fawn-colored horse, dark-colored thing, dull,” from Frankish *falw-, from the Germanic root of fallow (adj.)). Coined by French art critic Louis Vauxcelles at Autumn Salon of 1905. It was a reaction against impressionism, featuring vivid use of colors. Related: Fauvism.


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