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„Newsboys smoking cigarettes. St. Louis 1910"
Oil painting on canvas, Marek Pękacz

With My painting I would like to make the photo vivid in colours, enliven the boys and eternalise their
dreams. Think about the childhood that they hadn't experienced. Take into consideration those
children, who now only a few hours flight from here, suffer anguish because of greed and proflt.

Child's Iabour is constantly common in many parts of the world, according to statistics by UNICEF, there
are around 150 000 000 working children in 2019.

Watching the black and White photo of Lewis Hine, I saw young boys in men's poses, smoking cigarettes,
full of dreams, ńghting hunger and poverty every day.

Iwanted to revive these boys and immortalize their dreams.

The history of the photo, Lewis Hine- 5000 photos of working children
as a pressure on the need of social reforms.

In 1908 Lewis Hine took the position of the main photographer in National Child Labour Committee
(NCLC), a private organisation founded in 1904 With the aim of setting the legislation protecting
children from being overused by american industry.

Thanks to his photographies portraying the problem of illegal employment and bad treatment of
children, it was decided to establish a legal act that would protect children.

Children at the age of barely four or flve years old were working in various branches of industry for
twelve hours a day.Throughout Sixteen years in Which Hine had been working for NCLC he had taken
around flve thousand photographies of children working in mines, agriculture, plants, workshops and
on the street.

It was relatively tough to raise compassion for street sellers especially for the boys delivering
newspapers. It was them Who worked in difflcult, hard city environment.

In 1910 the number of children under 15 who worked in plants for money accrued about 2 million. Until
1920 the number of young workers in the USA was reduced to half in comparision to the quatnity in
1910.
„Newsboys smoking cigarettes. St. Louis 1910"
Oil painting on canvas, Marek Pękacz

With My painting I would like to make the photo vivid in colours, enliven the boys and eternalise their
dreams. Think about the childhood that they hadn't experienced. Take into consideration those
children, who now only a few hours flight from here, suffer anguish because of greed and proflt.

Child's Iabour is constantly common in many parts of the world, according to statistics by UNICEF, there
are around 150 000 000 working children in 2019.

Watching the black and White photo of Lewis Hine, I saw young boys in men's poses, smoking cigarettes,
full of dreams, ńghting hunger and poverty every day.

Iwanted to revive these boys and immortalize their dreams.

The history of the photo, Lewis Hine- 5000 photos of working children
as a pressure on the need of social reforms.

In 1908 Lewis Hine took the position of the main photographer in National Child Labour Committee
(NCLC), a private organisation founded in 1904 With the aim of setting the legislation protecting
children from being overused by american industry.

Thanks to his photographies portraying the problem of illegal employment and bad treatment of
children, it was decided to establish a legal act that would protect children.

Children at the age of barely four or flve years old were working in various branches of industry for
twelve hours a day.Throughout Sixteen years in Which Hine had been working for NCLC he had taken
around flve thousand photographies of children working in mines, agriculture, plants, workshops and
on the street.

It was relatively tough to raise compassion for street sellers especially for the boys delivering
newspapers. It was them Who worked in difflcult, hard city environment.

In 1910 the number of children under 15 who worked in plants for money accrued about 2 million. Until
1920 the number of young workers in the USA was reduced to half in comparision to the quatnity in
1910.

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Newsboys smoking cigarettes. St. Louis 1910 Painting

Marek PęKacz

Poland

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 39.4 W x 31.5 H x 1.2 D in

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„Newsboys smoking cigarettes. St. Louis 1910" Oil painting on canvas, Marek Pękacz With My painting I would like to make the photo vivid in colours, enliven the boys and eternalise their dreams. Think about the childhood that they hadn't experienced. Take into consideration those children, who now ...

Year Created:

2019

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Painting, Oil on Canvas

Rarity:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

39.4 W x 31.5 H x 1.2 D in

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Not Applicable

Frame:

Black

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Certificate is Included

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Ships in a Crate

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Marek Pękacz , a Painter and a scientific fantasist. He extends his privacy zone to the items he creates. In his painting he combines first-class technical proficiency with the concepts inspired by the world of science. Content hidden In the objects represents only a part of the open text. He always leaves in his hands the key to the complete decryption of his works, which allows him never to part with his work. Some content is hidden in the form of metapicture painted in ink visible only under UV light. Another time these are symbols, binary or text written with letters of its own alphabet. He combines conceptual art with classical painting, sometimes with sculpture and applied arts. He calls his paintings OBJECTS. They contain a comprehensive description of the idea in the form of plain text, as well as an encrypted part, hidden in the image. In addition, he creates a layer of metaimage visible only in ultraviolet light, which is usually a graphic synthesis of IDEA, which is the clou of of the object. Hyper-realistic images are treated as packaging for his ideas.

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