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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 the world's most prolific artist. He has also been called the "King of Schlock Art" and the "King of Toilet Paper Art" because of a novel means of painting he developed using a palette knife and toilet tissue instead of a paintbrush.〔 == Early life == Katz was born in 1932 in Galicia, Poland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography for Morris Katz )〕 At age 13 he studied under Dr. Hans Fokler of the Munich Academy.〔 After World War II, he lived for a while in a displaced persons camp, where he earned a diploma in carpentry, and he said later that toilet paper was his "diploma in art."〔 He moved to the United States in 1949, when he took a job in carpentry while maintaining a sideline with his art.〔 While working on his unpublished ''Dictionary of Color'' in 1956, he decided to try painting with his palette knife instead of his brushes.〔 After some time he also began experimenting with the use of rags; when he ran out of rags he turned to toilet tissue.〔 As of February 2007, over his career he had painted more than 280,000 paintings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The World’s Fastest Painter Returns to Boca Raton )〕 Over his long career, he established himself as a painter, comedian and television personality.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Instant Art Show )〕 An obituary 〔The Jewish Press, Nov. 19, 2010〕 described him as "creating 'instant art' and entertaining generations of guests in the old Borscht Belt hotels. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morris Katz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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