Elena Lacková
created: 20. 02. 2024 08:10 modified: 20. 02. 2024 08:10
Šarlota Bottová is a graduate of the Secondary Vocational School in Rimavská Sobota, cosmetologist. She started to study fine arts during her studies at high school, where the subject of aesthetics is taught. In aesthetics classes she got acquainted with portraiture, and extended her knowledge further as a self-taught artist, using resources available on the Internet and in professional literature. Her preferred technique is graphite pencil. In 2020, she also began working with colours and continues to pursue portraiture.
In 2020, she received a grant from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture of National Minorities of the Slovak Republic to create a collection of paintings - portraits of Roma writers and women writers.
The portrait depicts the writer Elena Lacková.
Elena Lacková (22.3.1921, Veľký Šariš - 1.1.2003, Košice) was one of the most important representatives of the Roma social and political emancipation movement in the second half of the 20th century in Slovakia. She was the founder of modern Roma literature in Slovakia, she was at the birth of the first post-war Roma organisation (the Roma-Gypsy Association, 1969 - 1973), co-founder of the first Roma periodical after 1989 Romano ľil. Elena Lacková became a symbol of the Roma movement in Slovakia.
recorded: 25. 10. 2023
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
