Hard Earnings

The work is an exemplary demonstration of the painter´s known cycle of the theme of the working coppersmiths from copper mills in Banská Bystrica, which is artistic document of traditional work of locals inhabitants. Skutecký developed this theme about the last 20 years of his work, during which he created about 50 paintings. These themes are interesting cause of artistic representation of specific lighting effects created by the glow of furnaces and gowing copper in the dark milieu of copper mills.