Zuzana Chalupová

Zuzana Chalupová
Zuzana Chalupová
Зузана Халупова
	naive painting

Zuzana Chalupová (

Kovačica, Serbia. Her colourful naive-style paintings recall children's works and fairy-tale illustrations. She typically painted children, so she was called "Mama Zuzana with a thousand children".^[1] Her creative legacy consists of more than 1,000 paintings.^{[citation needed}

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Biography

Chalupová finished only five grades of elementary school.

Kovačica during the "Kovačički oktobar" festival.^[2] Her first solo exhibition was in 1968^[1] in Dubrovnik where all of the paintings were bought by foreign collectors.^[2]

Though she never had children of her own,

biblical themes.^[2]

Chalupová made many paintings for charity purposes. She painted a monumental painting for the

Serbian Orthodox priests with children in Slovak traditional costumes and God watching all this from the skies. In 1974, Chalupová made a painting for the UNICEF headquarters named Children of the UN, full of symbols: It depicts the Earth, UNICEF headquarters, and the Statue of Liberty surrounded by children and angels with olive branches.^[4] The same year, her painting Zima (Winter) was printed by UNICEF Christmas card program in two million copies.^[2]

Many of her paintings are on permanent display in Kovačica's Gallery of Naive Art.[2] For her achievements, Matica slovenská decorated Chalupová with the order of Cyril and Methodius.^[1]

Part of the Gallery of Naive Art in Kovačica dedicated to Zuzana Chalupová
Awards given to Zuzana Chalupová
Easel of Zuzana Chalupová
Painting by Zuzana Chalupová on Postage Stamp

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Koliko se poznajemo: iz istorije nacionalnih zajednica u Vojovdini [How Good Do We Know Each Other: On the History of Ethnic Minorities in Vojvodina] (PDF) (in Serbian). Novi Sad: Vlada Vojvodine, Pokrajinski sekretarijat za propise, upravu i nacionalne manjine (Government of Vojvodina, Provincial Secretariat of Regulations, Administration and Ethnic Minorities). 2010. p. 148. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gallery of Naive Art, Kovačica: [1] (in English)
^ Subotica.com: „Naivna umetnost - Kovačica“ ili „Kako život ’udešava’ svoje priče“ Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in Serbo-Croatian)
^ ^a ^b ^c "Naivci iz Kovačice" [Naive Artists form Kovačica]. www.b92.net (in Serbian). B92. February 10, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2014.

External links

Slovak Art of Vojvodina: Zuzana Chalupova (1925-2001)
Babka Gallery: Zuzana Chalupova

[Koliko_se_poznajemo-1] Koliko se poznajemo: iz istorije nacionalnih zajednica u Vojovdini [How Good Do We Know Each Other: On the History of Ethnic Minorities in Vojvodina] (PDF) (in Serbian). Novi Sad: Vlada Vojvodine, Pokrajinski sekretarijat za propise, upravu i nacionalne manjine (Government of Vojvodina, Provincial Secretariat of Regulations, Administration and Ethnic Minorities). 2010. p. 148. Retrieved 25 January 2014.

[galerija-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Gallery of Naive Art, Kovačica: [1] (in English)

[3] Subotica.com: „Naivna umetnost - Kovačica“ ili „Kako život ’udešava’ svoje priče“ Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in Serbo-Croatian)

[b92-4] "Naivci iz Kovačice" [Naive Artists form Kovačica]. www.b92.net (in Serbian). B92. February 10, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2014.

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