Zdenka Mahajová
created: 19. 02. 2024 09:44 modified: 19. 02. 2024 09:46
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 Zdenka Mahajová.
Zdenka Mahajová is one of the Roma writers, she lives in Myjava, for many years she worked as a cook in a school canteen. She debuted in 2009 with the autobiographical novel Eclipse, in which the author offers a coming-of-age story of a Roma woman, based on her own experience and real events. In 2011, she published a collection of poems entitled Question Marks. In her poetry, she offers the reader the opportunity to understand her own journey towards herself, a journey from her head to her heart. The collection includes a CD where the author has recorded some of the poems to the sounds of the accompanying music by MAOKA.
recorded: 25. 10. 2023
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Šarlota Bottová general audience internal
