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Marának mégis lett új háza, 1967

Omara | Marának mégis lett új háza, 1967 | painting | Hungary | 2000 | vis_00189

Rights held by: Mara Oláh (artwork) — József Rosta (photo reproduction) | Licensed by: HungArt (artwork) — Ludwig Museum – MoCA Budapest (photo reproduction) | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Ludwig Museum – MoCA Budapest (Hungary)

Omara | Marának mégis lett új háza, 1967 | painting | Hungary | 2000 | vis_00189 Rights held by: Mara Oláh (artwork) — József Rosta (photo reproduction) | Licensed by: HungArt (artwork) — Ludwig Museum – MoCA Budapest (photo reproduction) | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Ludwig Museum – MoCA Budapest (Hungary)

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Rights held by: Mara Oláh (artwork) — József Rosta (photo reproduction) | Licensed by: HungArt (artwork) — Ludwig Museum – MoCA Budapest (photo reproduction) | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Ludwig Museum – MoCA Budapest (Hungary)

Description

Painted in various tones of blue and complemented with textual explanations and words of wisdom, the “Blue Pictures” are confessions about the artist’s most important, personal experiences, her relationship with her daughter, her ordeals as a Roma and a woman. The inscriptions not only verbalise the story of the narrative pictures, but also relate the time of the event, and contain reflections that show their relevance to the present and the future. A good example is Mara and the Policeman: the story of young Mara, who refused to stand with her bicycle behind a policeman in the line waiting at the railway crossing, because she had arrived earlier;
despite there being several eyewitnesses, the policeman beat her almost to death. (…)

Details

übersetzer Titel
Mara's Got a New House after All, 1967
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Production
2000
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Dimensions
80 cm width
60 cm height
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Object Number
vis_00189

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