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1932 Galicia, Poland - 2010 The Bronx, New York City. Known for: Instant art-modernist figurative, portrait-palette knife and toilet paper.
The World’s Fastest Painter. Artsy Editorial. By Abigail Cain. Jan 6th, 2017 9:16 pm. Thirty seconds. That’s just enough time for the average athletic person to run the 200-meter dash. For Morris... Read full biography
The World’s Fastest Painter. Artsy Editorial. By Abigail Cain. Jan 6th, 2017 9:16 pm. Thirty seconds. That’s just enough time for the average athletic person to run the 200-meter dash. For Morris Katz, it was enough to finish an entire painting. On May 9th, 1988, the New York artist set a new world... Read full biography
The World’s Fastest Painter. Artsy Editorial. By Abigail Cain. Jan 6th, 2017 9:16 pm. Thirty seconds. That’s just enough time for the average athletic person to run the 200-meter dash. For Morris Katz, it was enough to finish an entire painting. On May 9th, 1988, the New York artist set a new world record by painting a 12- by 16-inch canvas of a child in the snow in just half a minute. (It took an additional eight seconds to frame it.) And that wasn’t the only distinction granted to Katz by the... Read full biography
The World’s Fastest Painter. Artsy Editorial. By Abigail Cain. Jan 6th, 2017 9:16 pm. Thirty seconds. That’s just enough time for the average athletic person to run the 200-meter dash. For Morris Katz, it was enough to finish an entire painting. On May 9th, 1988, the New York artist set a new world record by painting a 12- by 16-inch canvas of a child in the snow in just half a minute. (It took an additional eight seconds to frame it.) And that wasn’t the only distinction granted to Katz by the Guinness Book of World Records—his name appeared alongside Pablo Picasso’s under the heading for “Most Prolific Painters.” The Spanish master is estimated to have completed some 13,500 paintings in his life; when Katz died in 2010 at age 78, he was... Read full biography
The World’s Fastest Painter. Artsy Editorial. By Abigail Cain. Jan 6th, 2017 9:16 pm. Thirty seconds. That’s just enough time for the average athletic person to run the 200-meter dash. For Morris Katz, it was enough to finish an entire painting. On May 9th, 1988, the New York artist set a new world record by painting a 12- by 16-inch canvas of a child in the snow in just half a minute. (It took an additional eight seconds to frame it.) And that wasn’t the only distinction granted to Katz by the Guinness Book of World Records—his name appeared alongside Pablo Picasso’s under the heading for “Most Prolific Painters.” The Spanish master is estimated to have completed some 13,500 paintings in his life; when Katz died in 2010 at age 78, he was credited with 225,000. Katz’s preposterously productive career began in the small Polish village where he... Read full biography
Morris Katz - Artist Info
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Keywords (14)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Paper as Art Media
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Polish