Olivier Debré Olivier Debré Olivier Debré (1920–1999) was a French abstract painter. It is following a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio in 1941 that Olivier Debré, an honoured artist and member of the French Academy, moved from figurative painting to abstraction, and the influence of André Lanskoy that awakened his marked fondness for colour. A major painter of colour fields of the Post-War period, this painter described his painting as ""fervent abstraction"" because it arouses emotions, emotion incarnated by him by the sign. ""I really tried to find how within a sign and without using conventions, I could express something without using
Frances Macdonald (English artist) Frances Macdonald (English artist) "For the Scottish artist, Frances MacDonald,(1873–1921) see Frances MacDonald." Frances Macdonald (12 April 1914 – 5 March 2002), was an English painter known for her panoramic scenes painted in Wales, the south of France and in London during World War II. Frances Macdonald was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, the younger of the two daughters of Francis Macdonald, a bank manager, and his wife Jessie. She trained at Wallasey School of Art between 1930 and 1934, before studying at the Royal College of Art until 1938. Whilst at the RCA Macdonald met her future husband, the artist