"My painting is rock n' roll music, the search for Feeling. The Feeling is rhythm, it is the mad drummer in the jungle and voodoo dances, it is the Rolling Stones who imitated the old songs of black bluesmen and created new music without knowing it. For me, it's the same with painting, feeling the rhythm of calligraphy on Chinese, Arabic, and Mediterranean painted advertisements." – Robert Combas

Combas is the main founder of the French "Figuration Libre" movement that flourished in the 1980's. His good friend Di Rosa was also a member. Figuration Libre artists subverted the noble status of Minimalism and Conceptualism, and created an important chapter in the history of contemporary art with twisted and rough brushworks as well as avant-garde satirical cartoons.