noun. An early 20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors.

noun. An artistic movement of the last part of the 19th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.

"The painting shocked the art world when it went on display that fall in Paris and launched a new movement called fauvism, from the French word for wild."