The Portrait of a Woman
created: 07. 06. 2019 12:20 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 on wooden panel with dimensions of 25 cm (width) x 25 cm (height) x 2,5 cm (thick). The upper and lower parts are cut clean. The left side is covered with bark till the half of its width. The motive is the portrait of a woman with flower in hair. 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
