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Stupica, Gabrijel
(b Drazgose, 21 March 1913; d Ljubljana, 19 Dec 1990). Slovenian painter. He graduated from the Zagreb Academy in 1937 and taught at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts between 1946 and 1977. His early works show a keen interest in the classical painting tradition, whereas after World War II he soon began to simplify the picture space by raising the ground and making the background indistinct. The colour was dark, dirty blue or brown, the figures grew gradually more distorted, outlined only by reflections of lighter colours. Between 1954 and 1958 his colours brightened, while the shapes of objects or bodies were geometrically schematized, as in A Little Girl with Toys and Self-portrait with Daughter (both 1956; Ljubljana, Gal. Mod. A.). By this time he was becoming influenced by Dubuffet and Giacometti and introducing into his work elements of art brut, especially simplification, caricatures and distortions characteristic of children’s, primitive or psychotic art.
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