Famous People with Name Paul

Paul Cadmus            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Cadmus: was an artist born in New York City. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic realism. He painted with egg tempera, a medium which had been associated with Greek icons.In 1934 he painted The Fleet's In! while working for the Public Works of Art Project of the WPA. This painting, featuring carousing sailors, women, and a homosexual man, was the subject of a public outcry and was removed from exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery. The publicity helped to launch his career. He worked in commercial illustration as well, but Jared French, another tempera artist who befriended him and became his lover, convinced him to devote himself completely to fine art.[1]

Paul Feeley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Feeley: was an artist and director of the Art Department at Bennington College during the 1950s and early 1960s.At Bennington College, he was fundamental in establishing its art department. Committed to the art of his contemporaries, he exposed his students — Helen Frankenthaler among them — to many of the most significant artists of his time. He helped to organize the first retrospective exhibition of modernist sculptor David Smith, in 1951[citation needed] and helped with the 1955 Hans Hofmann[1] and the 1952 Jackson Pollock retrospectives which were both organized by Clement Greenberg.[2] Feeley and Greenberg also organized a Kenneth Noland Exhibition at Bennington in 1961.[3]

Paul John Wonner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul John Wonner: was an American artist who was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received a B.A. in 1952, an M.A. in 1953, and an M.L.S. in 1955?all from the University of California, Berkeley. He rose to prominence in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, along with and his partner, Theophilus Brown (1919- ), whom he met in 1952 while attending graduate school. In 1956, Wonner started painting a series of dreamlike male bathers and boys with bouquets. In 1962, he began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles. By the end of the 1960s, he had abandoned his loose figurative style and focused exclusively on still-lifes in a hyperrealist style. Wonner died April 23, 2008 in San Francisco, California.

Paul Jenkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Jenkins: a U.S. abstract expressionist painter.As of 2008, he continues to work in acrylic on canvas, as well as watercolor on paper. His work is found in international museums and collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul, in France, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Tate Gallery in London.

Paul McCarthy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul McCarthy: a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.Paul McCarthy misleadingly is often considered to be influenced by the Viennese Actionism. Although by his own statement the happenings of the group were known to him in the 1970s, he sees a clear difference between the self-injurious actions of the Viennese and his own performances: "Vienna is not Los Angeles. My work came out of kids' television in Los Angeles. I didn' t go through Catholicism and World War II as a teenager, I didn' t live in a European environment. People make references to Viennese art without really questioning the fact that there is a big difference between ketchup and blood.

Ronald Ernest Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ronald Ernest Paul: is a Republican United States Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a physician, a bestselling author, and a former 2008 U.S. presidential candidate.

Richard Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Paul: was an American actor.Richard had a BA in Public Affairs from Claremont Men's College and an MA in Psychology from California State University at Los Angeles

John Lee Paul, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Lee Paul, Jr.: is a former race car driver in CART and the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series and winner of the 1982 12 Hours of Sebring while co-driving with his father John Paul, Sr.

Jean Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jean Paul: is an award winning Canadian stage and screen actor who has performed extensively throughout Canada and in the United States.He was born in Edmonton, Alberta on January 8, 1978. Popular and dynamic as an actor, Ron has worked with such notable directors a

Frank Rudolph Paul            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frank Rudolph Paul: was an illustrator of US pulp magazines in the science fiction field. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Teaneck, New Jersey.