Style of painting that flourished in France с 1898–1908, characterized by the use of intensely vivid colour and turbulent emotionalism.
The dominant figure of the group was André Derain , Maurice de Vlaminck , Raoul Dufy , Georges Braque , and Georges Rouault . The name derives from the judgment of a critic who visited their first exhibit in Paris (1905) and referred to the artists disparagingly as "les fauves" ("wild beasts"). They were influenced by the masters of Post-Impressionism , Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin . Fauvism was a transitional phase for most of the artists, who by 1908, having renewed their interest in Paul Cézanne 's vision of order and structure, abandoned Fauvism for {{link=Cubism">Cubism . Matisse alone continued on the course he had pioneered.