Dubravka Babić

FROM THE CATALOGUE

New cycles of acrylics created during 2005 only partially designate the cut in the continuity of recognizable features in the artistic work of this eminent graphic artist and painter. After longtime varying of ‘’Koride’’ (‘Bullfights’) theme, by which she had laid down new standards in Croatian art referring to the presentation of animalistic themes and movements in painting, Dubravka Babić has merely changed the field of motifs of her own artistic search for new challenges. Nature, landscapes and flowers are now shockingly new, being unexpected subjects of her interest: acrylics and coal in big-sizes, immense fields of flowers, changes of seasons, colourful meadows are now extending instead of bullfights. 

Iva Körbler

BIOGRAPHY

Dubravka Babić was born on February 18, 1951 in Zagreb. After finishing high school in 1969 she entered the studies of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She graduated in 1974 and in 1976 she won the master's degree in the class of professor Albert Kinert.
In 1984 and 1985 she was granted a fellowship by the French government for graphics specialization in Paris. Study tours led her to Italy, Austria, England, Hungary, Holland, France, Greece, Spain, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the USA.
Since 1972 she has exposed in about hundred solo exhibitions and participated in about 400 group exhibitions in the country and abroad. She has won 17 awards for drawings and graphics. She was awarded the Croatian ''Red Danice hrvatske s likom Marka Marulića'' for her distinguished merits in culture as also ''Red hrvatskog pletera'' for her extraordinary contribution to the development and reputation of the Republic of Croatia.
She is a co-author of 10 collectors’ editions on eminent poets and writers. The works of Dubravka Babić are placed in number of museums, galleries and private collections in the country and throughout the world.
She found employment at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1985; in 1987 she became a senior lecturer, in 1991 associate professor and in 1996 a professor at the Department of Graphic Arts. From 1989 to 1990 she performed her duty as a director, and from 1990 to 1992 a mandate of vice dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
From 1995 to 1999, at the time when she performed her duty as the dean of the Academy, the Department of Art Restoration and Conservation was established, as also the Department for Animated Film, Media Art program and Miniature Plastic Art program, Service for international cooperation and cooperation between universities and Exhibiting and Publishing Service. Buildings of the Academy of Fine Arts were built and adapted at Jabukovac and in Zamenhoff Street and one building was allocated in Zagorska Street. During the mandate of Dubravka Babić, the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb was awarded the City of Zagreb Prize.