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A major French painter on the art scene in the second half of the 20th century, Olivier Debr\u00e9’s monumental, colorful, non-figurative work is an exact reflection of the way we experience reality. His vast canvases, composed of large swathes of fluid color, bring him closer to the “color-field painting” of American abstract expressionists such as Morris Louis and Clifford Still. His black-and-white etchings retain a very painterly feel. <\/p>\n
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He began drawing and painting as a child. “As a <\/span>child, I always painted and sculpted. It seemed my natural mode of expression. I was comfortable with it. In 1938, he entered the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in the architecture section, in the studio of his maternal uncle Jacques Debat-Ponsan. During the war, in the early 1940s, in his family’s cradle in Touraine, he was drawn back to painting. “During this troubled period of the war, I was there, in this Touraine where I had always gone as a child, and I went back down into the field and painted, simply, like that. 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