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Morris Katz (born Moshe Katz on March 5, 1932 – November 12, 2010) was a Polish-American painter. He holds two Guinness World Records as the world's fastest painter and most prolific artist. He was known as the "King of Schlock Art" and the "King of Toilet Paper Art" due to his unique painting technique using a palette knife and toilet tissue ...
The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.
The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
The American University Museum is a three-story, 30,000-square-foot (3,000 m 2) museum and sculpture garden located within the university's Katzen Arts Center.As the region's largest university facility for exhibiting art, the museum's permanent collection highlights the holdings of the Katzen and Watkins collection.
His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 612 . JH1731 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh , Oxford: Phaidon, no. 1731. See also F1540 The Starry Night (drawing, same composition) and the preliminary studies F1541v Bird's-Eye View of the Village and F1730 Landscape with Cypresses (Hulsker p. 396).
Black Dress is a 1960 oil on canvas painting by Alex Katz (b. 1927) of his wife and frequent subject Ada Katz shown six times with the work employing cinematic effects. It also prominently features a repainting of a Katz portrait of the New York School poet James Schuyler in the work's backdrop.
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7 February 1963 - 4 March 1963 ; Mona Lisa Exhibition, Tokyo National Museum, 20 April 1974 - 10 June 1974 ; Notes: The most famous painting: References: A Treasury of Art Masterpieces: from the Renaissance to the Present Day, 22 ; The Most Famous Paintings of the World, 7