(b Comarnic, 23 Oct 1930). Romanian painter. She studied painting at the Institute of Fine Arts ‘Nicolae Grigorescu’ in Bucharest (1951–7) and subsequently took part in many exhibitions in Romania and abroad. Her formative years coincided with the freeing of Romanian painting from the restrictions of Socialist Realism and a corresponding absorption of trends in European art that had been ignored since World War II. In 1964–6 Naparus became familiar with the work of Picasso, Klee and the Surrealists, as reflected in her modifications of the figure in such works as Women in Comarnic (1967; Bucharest, Mus. A.). While she continued to work with the figure, the hieratic poses and rich patterns of folk art and Arabic arts influenced her painting after 1970 (e.g. Textile Workers, 1979; Ploiesti, Mus. A.). Unlike other artists of her generation she did not disdain everyday reality in her work but subjected it to metamorphoses and transformations, sometimes with simulated and colourful naivety but in a process always controlled by a sophisticated intelligence and humour.