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
Greg Edmonson (artist) Greg Edmonson (artist) Greg Edmonson (born 1960, Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian painter. He is primarily known for his paintings of fractured landscape and portrait paintings, and his Soviet Pangaea series of paintings which featured large scale portraits of faces from history. He received his master's degree in fine art from the University of Alberta. His paintings are seen today in collections including those of Microsoft, the Toronto-Dominion Bank, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Glenbow Museum, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, the Nickle Arts Museum, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Alberta