Painting 001

Painting 001

A painting made on a rectangular piece of plywood, vertically symmetrical, inspired by embroidery. The central part consists of stylized plant motifs (flowers and twigs) with two fancifully presented hearts with contours crowned with stylized flounces. Around the central drawing, there is a wide frame of three stripes of rhythmically repeating floral and geometric motifs, a compilation of half-flowers, a strip of twigs with leaves and an imitation of the embroidery typical for the Tarnobrzeg area with broken line motifs. The heart motif in the central part of the painting is inspired by the legend of the Lasowiacy heart, popular in the northern part of the Sandomierz Forest. It became popular in the interwar period of the 20th century.

Item: painting

Material, technique: plywood, oil paint (white) and tempera (red); folk painting

Dimensions: height 50 cm, width 20 cm

Creation time: 1950s

Origin: Machów

Owner: The Folk Museum in Kolbuszowa