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1. Fauvism

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   Fauvism was a short-lived but highly influential early modernist art movement, flourishing primarily between 1905 and 1908. Originating in Paris, the movement's name, meaning "wild beasts," was coined derisively by art critic Louis Vauxcelles after viewing works by Henri Matisse and others at the 1905 Salon d'Automne in Paris. The movement's central tenet was the radical liberation of color from its descriptive function, employing intense, arbitrary, and non-naturalistic hues to express subjective emotion and structure the pictorial plane…