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
John Kane (artist) When it was discovered that he had painted over discarded photographic images, purely for financial reasons, he was hounded by newspapers and unsuccessful artists who claimed him a sham. Kane continued to paint his primitive landscapes and self-portraits, including his famous "Self-portrait" (1929) in the collection of MoMA, New York. He had his first New York one-man show in 1931. John Kane died of tuberculosis on August 10, 1934 and is interred at Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery. John Kane (artist) John Kane (August 19, 1860 – August 10, 1934) was an American painter celebrated for his skill in Naïve