A Girl in Traditional Dress
created: 07. 06. 2019 10:03 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Jan Sajko paints the Romani motives on the wooden plates since 1986. He collects waste wood, preferably with some imperfections which determine the course of future painting. His most common motives are the faces of Romani women and girls, dances, musicians. The most used technique is tempera on wood.
Since the year 1986 Jan Sajko works as teacher of arts at Elementary School in Jarovnice.
The painting is made on wood with dimensions of 22 cm (in the widest part) x 28.5 cm (height). Wood thickness is 2.5 cm. The left side has a bark structure in part. The remaining sides are trimmed evenly. The motive of painting is a girl in a Romani costume in the meadow. The painting was created in 2010.
author: Ján Sajko
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 3D artifact painting Ján Sajko general audience internal
