Freddie James Prinze
created: 15. 07. 2015 10:16 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Freddie James Prinze (Frederick Karl Pruetzel), an American actor and comedian. He was born in San Juan in 1954 into the family of Hungarian and Puerto Rican descent. He is best known for his role in the comedy series Chico And the Man. Picture size: 120cm (w) x 100cm (h). The underlying material is plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - stencil art.
category: fine arts
Django Reinhardt
created: 15. 07. 2015 09:54 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Django Reinhardt (real name Jean Baptiste Reinhardt), a founder of gypsy jazz music. He was born in 1910 in Liberchies, Belgium into a family of French Roman ethnicity. He belonged to the Roma community of Manouches. He was one of the best composers of jazz music and he is regarded to be the founder of the Roma jazz interpretation called also gypsy jazz, gypsy swing or French Manouché jazz. In Romani language, the nickname Django means “waking up”. He died on 16 May 1953 in France. Picture dimensions: 120cm (w) x 100cm (h). The underlying material is plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - stencil art.
category: fine arts
Elvis Presley
created: 26. 06. 2015 12:37 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Elvis Presley, an actor and singer. He was born in the USA in 1935 and died in 1977 in the USA. Several sources suggest he is of Roma origin. His ancestors are said to come from the community of German Sinits. However, other sources consider these statements to be false. Picture dimensions: 120cm (w) x 100cm (h). The underlying material of the painting is the plasterboard. Fine art technique used: pop art - stencil art.
category: fine arts
Charlie Chaplin
created: 26. 06. 2015 12:13 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jozef Fečo, is an amateur graphic artist who graduated at the Secondary Art School in Prešov. He studied wood design and carving. In 2011, he actively started to create his own works with his first work being the painting of Jesus on canvas. A series of ten fine art portraits of world famous personalities was created within the priority project "Live Books (word – video – audio)" supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in April and May 2015. The artist Jozef Fečo prepared 9 portraits in his home environment in the village of Kračúnovce. The tenth portrait was created in the premises of the Documentation and Information Centre of the Roma Culture. The person depicted in the portrait is Charlie Chaplin. He was born in England in 1889 and died in 1977 in Switzerland. Several sources suggest he is of Roma origin. In his book We Are the Romani People, Ian Hancock describes Chaplin’s Roma origin. The mother of Ch. Chaplin came from the community of Romani blacksmiths. He tried to spend as much time with the Roma people as possible and “shaped” his film character based on his own perception of Roma life. Feeling sorry for ill treatment of Roma people in Nazi Germany he created the figure of Hitler in his film The Great Dictator (1940). Picture dimensions: 120 cm (h) x 100 cm (w). The underlying material of the painting is the plasterboard.
category: fine arts
Cross
created: 25. 06. 2015 09:58 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Igor Radič was born in 1960 in Klenovec. He was interested in smithing since his childhood. After finishing the vocational school, he started to work as a smith in a collective farm in Klenovec. He was taught by the old smith masters. Since 1995, he´s engaged in business. He´s an authorised representative of Roma Smithcraft Civic Association, which holds Smith Workshops. He´s doing both industrial smithery and smithcraft. At work in smithy his son, Igor Radič Jr. (1984), is helping. The photograph catches a Cross. The production lasted four days. Material used - flat bar.
category: Crafts
Tomáš Botló - "Besame Mucho"
created: 22. 06. 2015 12:18 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomas mixis Romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. Music and lyrics by Consuelo Velázquez "Besame Mucho". Interpretation: Tomáš Botló.
category: music
Tomáš Botló - "Come back, Please"
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:36 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis Romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song "Please, Come Back" is written by him, the lyrics and music by Tomáš Botló.
category: music
Tomáš Botló - "I Know What I Want"
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:34 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song "I Know What I Want" is a cover version of the original song /The Gap Band - Someday, the author of lyrics is Tomáš Botló.
category: music
Tomáš Botló - "Gelem, gelem"
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:29 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The melodic motive of the Romani anthem comes probably from the ancient song popular originally in Romania or Serbia during the 1st half of the 20th century. Sin the 1968 when the director Alexander Petrovič used its melody with the lyrics made by the Romani musician Jarko Jovanovič in the film with the Romani theme The Buyers of Feather (Skupljači peria, 1967, Yugoslavia), the song had became popular once more. The Romani musicians included the song into their repertoir and many times changed its lyrics (sometimes even melody and tempo) according to their own feeling. Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song sung by Tomáš Botló "I am fine" is a cover version /Zámbó Jimmy/. Lyrics by Tomáš Botló. The song is sung with guitar playing at the social hall of the cultural house in Hubice, district of Dunajská Streda.
category: music
Tomáš Botló - She's Our Young Bride
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:24 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The traditonal Romani song. Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis Romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists.
category: music
