The Daughter's Portrait
created: 28. 08. 2018 10:56 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Cichý (1966-) is a the painter of the Romani origin, born in Nižný Žipov, the district of Trebišov. He was trained as an auto mechanic, later devoted himself exclusively to painting. His work was influenced especially by Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti and Rafael Santi. He works mostly with acrylic and oil paintings, painting mostly on canvas and hardboard. He also has several wall paintings in churches and houses of sadness. The main themes of his works are, besides sacral themes, the topics of family, war and Roma. In the 90's, he was awarded a prize for painting in a national amateur art contest in Trenčín. He has exhibited his work with other Romany artists in Poland, the Museum of Romany Culture in Brno, in Bratislava at the exhibition named Heart Prints on the Romany Painters‘ Palette, in Prešov, in Michalovce at an exhibition entitled Romane čercheňa (The Romani Stars) or in Stropkov. His paintings are currently located in about 30 villages in houses for funerals, in several churches, in the Museum of Romany Culture in Brno and other places in Slovakia and abroad.
Name of the work: The Portrait of the Girl
Technique: oil
Base material: canvas on wooden plate
Topic: the family - the portrait of the author's daughter reading a letter
Year of creation: 2000
Year of digitalization: 2017
Size: 60,5 cm x 49,5 cm
Administered by: the author
Originality: original
The origin of the title: by the author
Framing: framed
author: Jozef Cichý
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Cichý general audience internal
