Graffiti, 1949
Mother, 1949
Hommage to Christopher Columbus, 1949
Horses, 1947

"I never or seldom say, that I'm a painter because I think it means nothing."

Slavko Kopac

"Today, everything is written down, recorded, that moment has no longer any sense. A painter today doesn't have to and mustn't be any longer the painter of that reality."

Slavko Kopac

"Picasso was the first to say: "Open the windows!". I'm adding that it is not enough. Open your windows and doors and not only open but smash the glass, as windows and doors can be closed, that's why they need to be smashed."

Slavko Kopac

"I'm feeling as a great sinner."

Slavko Kopac

"Normally, I don't like the word – professionally – profession is something which deforms you. A painter who is a professional, he is, I think, a lost man. Painting, it is like breathing. You work because you have to, because it makes you happy and, as for a painful childbirth, I don't know of it"."

Slavko Kopac

Artworks

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Adam and Eve
Landscape
New Arch
Hunting a wild boar
Cat
Lizard
The Winner
Cow
Le double
Butterfly figure
Black soil
Rusted leaf
Werewolf
Movie scene
The face of summer
Oxen
Flowered tree
Ashen face
Butterfly leaf
Flag trees
Slavko Kopač portrait

Slavko
Kopac

Franco-Croatian artist Slavko Kopac, born in 1913 is an enigmatic and complex figure who embodied the innovative and interdisciplinary spirit of an era of cultural rebirth from the ruins of the postwar period.

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