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
Joseph H. Davis (painter) (e.g. musical instruments, inkwells, books, etc.) used to characterize the personalities portrayed, suggesting their professions and showing off their life styles. He is "best known for his double portraits of married couples" facing each other across a table, which endows the interiority of his work with an explicitly Romantic quality. Joseph H. Davis (painter) Joseph H. Davis (active 1832–1837) was an itinerant American portrait painter. Over a period of only five years, from 1832–37, the itinerant artist Joseph H. Davis painted about 150 watercolor portraits of residents of Maine and New Hampshire. The body of work he left behind is