Paul Ninas

Paul Ninas (May 7, 1903—January 1, 1964) was an American artist. He was born in Leeton, Missouri. He began to laboratory analysis engineering at the University of Nebraska back he travelled on the Middle East and North Africa, which inspired him to become a painter. He studied painting in Vienna in 1922–1925. He after that moved to Paris where he studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and was influenced by fauvism and cubism. He was also joined with the dancer Isadora Duncan as well as the Montparnasse model Kiki, who after that modeled for Man Ray. After time in North Africa and Dominica, where he bought a coconut and lime plantation, he returned to the United States in 1932 once his father's death. He established in New Orleans where he would breathing from 1932 until his death in 1964. He was lively in the city's art community and his European style was skillfully received. He was described as the "dean of forward looking art" in New Orleans. he was married twice and has one daughter.

Paul Ninas’ work is pivotal in the enhance of unprejudiced art in the South and, more particularly in New Orleans. Through Ninas’ work as a teacher and as an active exhibiting artist, he introduced European modernist ideas to what had been hitherto a fairly received way of making art in the South. Aside from the obvious comparisons to Gauguin, the later decree of Ninas is a dialogue taking into account Pablo Picasso and translating his synthetic Cubist style into distinctly Southern subjects. Ninas especially sees New Orleans through a Cubist lens, depicting cemeteries, Mardi Gras parades and harbor scenes once angular, colorful flair.