Franco Francese (1920-1996) In the early 1930s he enrolled in the schools of the Humanitarian Society of Milan where he attended engraving courses and became friends with Alfredo Chighine. Since 1936 he attends the artistic high school of Brera. After stopping the war, choosing the sculpture course, he studied with Giacomo Manzù, at the Accademia di Brera. From '45 to '47 he collaborated with the magazines "Numero" and "Painting". From the recovery of a hard, primitive, expressionistic image, he passed to a genre of "New Figuration" whose references were at the same time, abstract neonaturalism, Dubuffet's "Art Brut" and Bacon's almost shapeless defeat, in via tot