Jozef Ravasz József
created: 19. 02. 2024 15:03 modified: 19. 02. 2024 15:04
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 Jozef Ravasz József.
Jozef Ravasz József was born on 23 November 1949 in Sokolce, Dunajská Streda District, Slovakia. He studied at the grammar school, in Hungarian language in Dunajská Streda. After 1989, he was involved in the founding of specific political and cultural organisations in Roma settlements. He wrote several books and collections of poems. Among them is the book Domček v srdci (1992), published by the Romaňi Kultura Publishing House in Bratislava, which contains fairy tales in Hungarian, Romani and Slovak.
He is an associate professor, a Romologist and a social worker. He graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, later passing the rigorosum examination. He continued his doctoral studies at the St. Elizabeth University in Bratislava. In 2012 he habilitated and received the title of associate professor. He currently lives and works alternately in Dunajská Streda and Moldava nad Bodvou, and at the same time he runs the Romological Research and Methodology Institute in Dunajská Streda.
Source:
szmit.hu/rolunk/tagjaink/ravasz-jozsef/
recorded: 25. 10. 2023
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
