Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 9. (Budapest, 1966)
HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Kovács, György: A Balinese Painted Calendar
Most of the figures are represented only by their trunk or bust. The following table shows the difference in the number of figures represented in the partitions of the two paintings : Serial number Number of figures of rows of partitions par partition 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 6 2 1 4 2 — 2 4 4 — 5 — — 4 6 2 1 5 3 4 1 5 4 — 1 5 5 — 1 In the 2nd partition of the 3rd row there is no human figure in the quoted reproduction, in opposition to our painting where also a man can be seen. In the 4th partition of the 6th row there are three persons (an adult and two children) in the analogy, while our painting presents on this spot a single man only who carries a bundle concealing probably a dead child. The 7th partition of the 6th row is entirely different. On our painting there is a ship with a man wearing a red coat, while on the analogy there is neither a ship, nor the sea to be seen and the human figure wears merely a waist-cloth. On our painting the sea is represented by blue-white-blue-white (pale blue —white) waves. The jewels and other attributes of the divinities represented in the first row are also schematic and so are the reproductions of trees and birds too. The bodies of the divinities are golden yellow, light brown or red brown, those of the demons greyish in colour, with red eyes and lips. On the whole painting, the hair and the moustache are black, except for the men to be seen on the ships, who are obviously Europeans and whose hair and beard are of a yellowish brown colour. But for the phantastic animals, the colouration of the animal figures is, in general, comparable to reality. There are also many differences in the location of the various figures, so, for instance, the palm-tree in the 2nd picture of the 2nd row inclines to the right on one painting and to the left on the other. The same difference is characteristic of many other human and animal figures too. Differences can also be observed in the representation of objects : on one of the paintings, there is a dish in front of the pig in the 3rd partition of the 6th row, and none on the other. In the 2nd partition of the 6th row there is nothing but a cart on our painting, in opposition to the analogy where the cart is drawn by oxen. A similar simplification can be seen in the 1st partiton of the 5th row of our painting, where there are no buffaloes or oxen, only an ochrecoloured man wearing a light green coat and carrying a plough on his shoulder. In opposition to the analogy, the 4th partition in the 5th row of our painting shows a human figure, while the first picture of the 4th row is entirely different : we see a man with a gold-coloured body lying on his back and thrusting a kris (dagger) into his breast. Finally, instead of the demons represented on the analogy, there are phantastic animal figures in the lowest row of our painting, while no inscription can be found in either of the partitions.
