Jozef Fečo - Katarína Taikon
created: 07. 06. 2022 12:51 modified: 07. 06. 2022 13:02
The video captures the work of art. The person shown is the Roma singer Věra Bílá (1954-2019). The creation of the image is realized within the framework of Unknown Colors of Personalities, through which a total of 23 large-format portraits of Roma personalities were created. The author of the portraits is the Romani painter Jozef Fečo.
Katarina Taikon-Langhammer She was born on July 29, 1932, Almby, Sweden. She was a Swedish Roma activist, leader of the civil rights movement, writer and actress, from the Roma group Kalderash. The sister of the jeweler Rosa Taikon. Through her political and media activity, she fought for the acquisition of civil rights for the Roma in Sweden. She managed to change the main stereotypical views of the major society through her literary work; between the years 1963 and 1980 she published 16 sequels of children's books about the Roma girl Katitzi. Her stories are still very popular, even films were made of them. Katarina Taikon, for her political activism, is often compared to Martin Luther King. She died on 30 December 1995, Ytterhogdal, Sweden.
Jozef Fečo is a graduate of the Secondary Art School in Prešov, Department of Design and Artistic Wood Shaping. He is mainly interested in the facial expressions of human faces, their expressive value and typical personality traits.
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 25. 11. 2020
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Slovak Jozef Fečo general audience internal
