It took Artist SinGh 4 months to create the whole painting.
The attempt was sponsored by O’Leary Paint
and co sponsored by B and G discount
Exhibits:
Artist Singh Gallery, Kalamazoo
Great Lakes Art Festival, Detroit
Arts Council of greater Kalamazoo
Name of the artist:
Artist SinGh
Type of Picture:
Oil painting on a single canvas
Title:
Star of Bethlehem Official Guinness World Record
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The largest professional oil painting
by a single artist is 22.76 m² (245 ft² 20 in²),
achieved by Gurmej Singh AKA Artist SinGh (USA),
at the Epic Center
in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA,
on 8 September 2017.
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Description of the
painting:
The painting “Star of Bethlehem” is a night scene oil
painting. The Blue night scene panorama of color, light and space is painted on
single piece of canvas measuring 22.863 square meters. It’s a story of the Star
of Bethlehem. It is highly detailed painting that includes architecture of the
time, animals, caravan, desserts, landscapes, people of the time and their
lifestyle. Amazing plethora blue hues are used to capture the miracle in the
sky. The arrangements in the sky, the
stars and the movement on the land all points at the miracle –the star. 
Why you decided to
break a record?
This painting celebrates equality. The star of Bethlehem which symbolizes the hope for the world. In 2016, I fell
in love blue hues which became the integral part of my work including my
paintings, nature photography and selfies. This vary concept of everything blue hues
lured me attempted Guinness world record for the largest professional oil
painting which is a blue night scene panorama of color, light and space.
Description of the
event:
The public inspection and measuring of the painting took place in Artist Singh
Gallery in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A special tent was designed to host this large
scale painting. Since the subject matter had many tents, it was inspiring to
make the painting in a tent. The tent was left open during the entire process
of painting and final display for public viewing and inspection. Hundreds of people visited the gallery to
watch the artist at work and revisited to see the finished work. The painting was unveiled on the 4th of august 2016, where three main witnesses and 2 process witnesses inspected the painting (Star of Bethlehem) the panorama of color, light and space. Special invitation was sent out to local artists, collectors, and dealers. It was free entry for the general public.
Final professional display
Arts Council of greater Kalamazoo
September 8th, 2017
Describe how the record was measured.
A Michigan state licensed surveyor (Randy B Ligman) measured
the painting. He used 100 foot tape measure to measure the painting.
He measured the top of the canvas first lengthwise and then
the middle and then the bottom. He took mean of the dimensions to find the
average length of the painting. He did the same thing for the height of the
painting.
Following are the measured dimensions:
22.863 square meters
22.863 square meters
Other Records won.
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