A Violinist
created: 07. 06. 2019 10:45 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 on wooden panel with dimensions 29,5 cm (width) x 18,3 cm (height) x 2,8 cm (thick). The upper and lower parts are cut clean. The left side keeps the structure of bark. The right side is in 2/3 coverd in bark, the rest is cut smooth. The motive of the painting is a violinist playing the violin. There is a slight crak close to the middle part of the wooden panel. 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
