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Marija Ujevi\u0107-Galetovi\u0107, <\/strong>Croatian sculptor and painter, was born on October 20, 1933 in Zagreb. She graduated in 1958 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (F. Kr\u0161ini\u0107), where she has been a professor since 1987. Marija Ujevi\u0107-Galetovi\u0107 is one of the main successors of the Croatian figurative sculpture tradition, connecting it with contemporary and avant-garde understandings.<\/p>\n In the early 1960s, she approached pop art and new figuration; she purified the shapes and emphasized the expressiveness of various materials (alabaster, porcelain, bronze, polyester, aluminum). In the 1980s, she formed postmodernist sculptures (Melania, 1988; Boots, 1989<\/em>).<\/p>\n In the latter works, she synthesized her experiences using classical and modern associations (Runner, 1995; Cat, 2009<\/em>).<\/p>\n In the figures of Miroslav Krle\u017ea in Osijek and Zagreb, with psychological analysis, she achieved an ingenious connection between plastic and space.<\/p>\n She is the author of several public monuments (Vlaho Paljetak, 1987, and August \u0160enoa, 1988, in Zagreb<\/em>) and religious sculptures of pure volumes and deliberate ambiental solutions (Ascension in the Church of St. Nicholas in Rijeka, St. Francis in Visoko<\/em>).<\/p>\n
\nSince 1998. she is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Fine Arts.\u00a0She received the Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.<\/p>\n
\nShe shaped portraits as sculptural metaphors reliant on natural forms (F. Kafka, 1979<\/em>), and in volumes of sharp edges and distinctive stylization she was close to Cubism (A. G. Mato\u0161, 1979<\/em>). Rhythmic contrasts of light and shadow achieved expressiveness, and color achieved the metaphysical meaning of the statue (Meta, 1979<\/em>).<\/p>\n