Bruno Zupan

Valley of May Flowers

Oil on Canvas

Image Size 39 x 45

Bruno Zupan was born in Slovenia in 1939. He graduated from the Art institute in Zagreb and decided at the age of twenty-three to leave home and continue his education in Paris.

In 1964 he left Paris for New York, where he began a series of one-man exhibitions of his work in American museums and galleries.

Although Zupan is a citizen of the United States, he has not abandoned his desire to explore other parts of the world. He has painted the vibrant colors of Mexico, has returned annually to Paris and Venice, and has established his main studios in the village of Valldemossa on the island of Mallorca. Many of his subjects are found just beyond his door.

He greatly enjoys an anti-urban Mediterranean lifestyle which gives free reign to his desire to glorify the everyday things which have given pleasure to Homer, to Byron and Shelly, to Sargent, to Chopin...sunlight on a broken column, the perfume of almond blossom, the wet wind of spring or the smell of the sea. He is part and product of this immortal seasonal flux, and he wants his paintings to be messages from a place of rest and renewal.

Zupan is a profoundly contemporary man delicately poised between two worlds: fascinated by the dynamic tension of American culture, yet unable to deny the quiet sensuality of Europe. As the list of exhibitions demonstrates, he has achieved wide exposure and critical acclaim on two continents, culminating in several singular honors. In 1976 he was awarded life membership in the Society of French Artists, and in 1981 and 1991 he received special commissions to create first day covers for the

World Federations of United Nations Associations. American Artist magazine has published an extensive article about his work. He has published fifty graphic images in Paris and Mallorca. Since 1962 Zupan had over 70 exhibitions in Europe, USA and Japan.