The document discusses painting, sculpture, and folk art traditions in Slovakia. It provides biographies of three important Slovak painters: Zolt¨¢n Benke Jr., Nina Vargov¨¢, and Rebeka Weiserov¨¢. It also discusses the medieval sculptor Master Pavol of Levo?a, who carved the main altar in the Roman Catholic Parish Church of St. James in Levo?a, Slovakia. The altar, standing at 18 meters and 62 centimeters high, is considered the highest Gothic altar in the world. Basketry and tinkering are also mentioned as forms of folk seasonal work carried out by the rural population in Slovakia in the 19th-20th centuries.