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Definition of: Fauves
(fōv), Les (lā)
A group of French painters, including Derain, Dufy, Matisse, and Vlaminck, who, about 1906, revolted from what they regarded as the limitations of Impressionism as well as from those of academic art. [<F, wild beasts]
—Fau′vism noun
—Fau′vist noun
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