A representative of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, the main subjects of his paintings were the themes of everyday life and social struggle of the French people.

[1][2] After serving in the military, he returned to Paris and joined Louis Aragon's Maison de la culture movement with his friend Boris Taslitzky.

Inspired by Pablo Picasso's Guernica, Fougeron created many paintings depicting the Spanish Civil War and in support of the Republicans.

[2] Being called for the military again after the German invasion, he was prisoner on the Belgian front but managed to escape and reach the free zone before resettling in Paris, then, in 1943, in Montrouge, where he created a studio.

Fougeron moved towards a more critical figurative style and mixed influences, borrowing from photography, hyperrealism and comics, without abandoning his political commitment and depictions of current events.