Paul Mc Carthy Born in 1945 in Salt Lake City (USA). Lives and works in Altadena (USA). "The Painter" (1995), vidéo and several drawings, "Red Painter Drawings" (1989-1990) and "Red Painter Drawing" (1995), on the absurd life of the artist. Paul McCarthy, who has often been involved in denunciations of the American way of life, also attacks the stereotypes of the art world. In The Painter he makes an ironic comment on the hegemony of the American abstract expressionist painters.