Forest
created: 06. 09. 2022 13:44 modified: 06. 09. 2022 13:50
The author of the painting is the painter Jozef Fečo. The painting is a part of the 11-pieces collection of pictures covering the events of the Romani Holocaust. The author found the inspiration in the literary work of Elena Lacková, specifically in her novel The Dead Never Return. The collection was created with support of the stipend provided by the Fund for Minorities’ Culture Development SR.
The author adds the description of the painting by the quoting the novel:
In the morning, the door opened and a gendarme was standing there wide stance, a pickaxe in his hand. With a smirk on his face he roars: “Get up, stinkers! Get up!“ Then he twisted his face in disgust and spat: “What a stench, dogs. Everyone out, in front of the barracks. Understood, bastards?”
Men were coming out of other barracks as well. Lajko’s heart was beating furiously. Not sure what to expect he looked around. The headman of the station stood before them and began: “You are convicts under the law. You’re to do forced labor. Meaning you’re to build the railway from Prešov to Strážske. The railway is the absolute must for the German army’s victorious fight! Whoever breaks the rules of work or try to escape the camp will be sent to a court. Rest assured, we are allowed to deliver severe punishments. That’s what the Slovak law says! To violate it is tantamount to suicide.”
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, majoring in design and artistic wood shaping. He is primarily interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits. For the State Science Library in Prešov, he created a series of 23 large-format paintings in 2015 and 2019 called Unknown Colours of Personalities.
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 19. 07. 2022
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo general audience internal
