Charlie Chaplin
created: 26. 06. 2015 12:13 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo, is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Charlie Chaplin. He was born in England in 1889 and died in 1977 in Switzerland. Several sources suggest he is of Roma origin. In his book We Are the Romani People, Ian Hancock describes Chaplin’s Roma origin. The mother of Ch. Chaplin came from the community of Romani blacksmiths. He tried to spend as much time with the Roma people as possible and “shaped” his film character based on his own perception of Roma life. Feeling sorry for ill treatment of Roma people in Nazi Germany he created the figure of Hitler in his film The Great Dictator (1940). Picture dimensions: 120 cm (h) x 100 cm (w). The underlying material of the painting is the plasterboard.
author: Jozef Fečo
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 18. 05. 2015
category: fine arts
