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| − | [[Image:Burnette-Pletan-1988.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Burnette G Pletan, in 1988]]Burnette Pletan ''(playt-un)'' b.1910 - d. | + | [[Image:Burnette-Pletan-1988.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Burnette G Pletan, in 1988]]'''Burnette Pletan''' ''(playt-un)'' b.8/24/1910 - d.3/21/1991), the self-styled "Fastest Painter in the World". |
Pletan started painting in 1932 after an artist visited his parent's farm, and Pletan decided he could be a painter himself. Self-taught, Pletan said (or possibly joked) that when he started painting he did not know that artists had special brushes, so he used regular house-painting brushes for his art. Whether a joke or not, that style of brush was the implement Pletan used the most, as demonstrated in two videos in the 1980s: | Pletan started painting in 1932 after an artist visited his parent's farm, and Pletan decided he could be a painter himself. Self-taught, Pletan said (or possibly joked) that when he started painting he did not know that artists had special brushes, so he used regular house-painting brushes for his art. Whether a joke or not, that style of brush was the implement Pletan used the most, as demonstrated in two videos in the 1980s: | ||
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp46NbF0Ybc Pletan on "65 and over"] | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp46NbF0Ybc Pletan on "65 and over"] | ||
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rLP6d7CNU Pletan performing a very entertaining 'Bob-Ross' style how-to-paint] | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rLP6d7CNU Pletan performing a very entertaining 'Bob-Ross' style how-to-paint] | ||
Revision as of 23:19, 2 October 2007
Burnette Pletan (playt-un) b.8/24/1910 - d.3/21/1991), the self-styled "Fastest Painter in the World".
Pletan started painting in 1932 after an artist visited his parent's farm, and Pletan decided he could be a painter himself. Self-taught, Pletan said (or possibly joked) that when he started painting he did not know that artists had special brushes, so he used regular house-painting brushes for his art. Whether a joke or not, that style of brush was the implement Pletan used the most, as demonstrated in two videos in the 1980s:
