Fauve

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Fauve may refer to:

  • French for wild beast or big cat
  • The Fauves, an Australian rock band
  • Fauvism, a short-lived movement of early Modernist art. also Fauvism is a style of painting with a bold use of vivid colours inspired by Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gaugin. A short-lived but influential art movement originated in Paris 1905 with the founding of the salon d’Automme by Henri Matisse and others.
  • Fauve Holly, a comic book artist