A Moroccan artist aims for Guinness World Records

Moroccan artist Abdelatif Al-Ayyadi in one of his exhibitions.

Moroccan artist Abdelatif Al-Ayyadi, 25 years old, is holding one of the biggest exhibitions in Morocco, showing his satirical paintings of political, social, and intellectual figures in Morocco, in addition to being inspired by international characters and main events in and outside Morocco.

Al-Ayyadi uses aqueous and oily painting, being inspired by some international artists. He also revealed that he’s working on a portrait that he hopes to beat Guinness record for the biggest drawn portrait.

According to AlArabiya,  Al-Ayyadi said that he finds inspiration in his hometown “Wazan” northern Morocco, for its “beautiful nature and the quietness that big cities lack.” But besides the beautiful faces that motivate Al-Ayyadi to draw, the statements by Moroccan politicians in media motivate him to draw satirical pieces.

Al-Ayyadi won several awards among them was the grand award in the international  festival for animation in 2013, which is the only Arabic festival majoring in animation. He also won an award from a cultural center in Spain’s Seville in 2012, and “Bortochi” award from fine arts institution in Morocco’s Tatwan.

Despite his young age, he held a number of galleries, two of them were in Tatwan where he graduated from its fine arts faculty, the third was in Spain, 2014 where he introduced his artworks under the title “Nature and Spanish figures portraits,” and another exhibition in his hometown “Wazan,” where he exhibited a number of his aqueous paintings.

Guinness World Records had already had a number of Moroccan people prove themselves, such as Taher Al-Duwes, who managed to lift a human pyramid composed of 12 people, with their total weight being 771 kg, and he was famous later on for exhibiting dangerous circus acts that included crocodiles and lions. Another one is Rashid Al-Sharqawy, whose Karate skills were recognized after he managed to break 10 hard block of ice with his hand, taking the spot from a Vietnamese who only managed to break eight.

Other Moroccan people on Guinness world records include an artist who managed to draw the smallest paintings in the world, and two brothers who were called the most capable people in the word to solve the hardest and most complex calculations, beating advanced calculators and the previous title holder, an Indian girl.