Jakopič’s landscape can be understood as an artistic assignment to use 3 primary tones – green, blue, and yellowish orange – to paint all the features in the work (banks, a dune, trees, water, and the hills), which are only recognizable juxtaposed alongside one another in synthesis, in a relationship of one to the other. The bold hues and barely defined swaths of color border on the abstract, but it remains objectively recognizable as the Sava’s banks near Tacen. Jakopič remains faithful to reality, even if he quite early began injecting it with elements of impressionism and symbolism.

The Sava was an important river for him: he was the founder of the eponymous artistic association (in 1903), and after WWI he made dozens of paintings along its banks. The impression in these works was not a thing of spontaneous whim, but a desired, integral part of his artistic trademark. Sava pri Mednu (The Sava in Medno) was painted by Gojmir Anton Kos, albeit it in a stylistically completely different manner, but as the most talented member of the younger generation, he was certainly worthy of the master’s attention.