Dana Moravčíková

SlovakiaBIB

*1974, Bratislava

Biography

Daniela Moravčíková was born on the 18^th of February 1974 in Bratislava. She graduated from the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava. The illustration is her major focus. She lives and works in Bratislava.

Illustration Features

Dana Moravčíková represents young generation of illustrators with her immensely calm, unobtrusive and poetic style. Her illustrations are unusually fragile, without clear borderlines, often growing out of the background and her composition often seems without without clearly designed structure. Figures have got their dignified faces and often just the faces, because their bodies disappear in the background. However, the overall expression is even more concrete and the image is based only on the atmosphere and the mood of the story. The illustrations are lyrical, incospicuous and smart. They do not aspire to attack visually and rather present refined ideas and messages. For the artist are typical two phenomenons, both outstanding and mutually supportive – the intellectual level strengthen by a clear rational judgement, and a natural, feminine, fragile emotional bound with the story or the figure. This precious magic tension can be felt from her images, which tell evident truth emerging from a transparent mist. Her work is unique and serious in its calmness It does not attack, but approaches its perceiver inconspicuously, humbly to the reader, but its approach to the text which the artist illustrates is very exacting. The artist transforms subconsciously to her pictures a kind of a dual principle. Her illustrations have encoded in them a masculine (let's say rational) phenomenon, which is balanced by entirely feminine element of fragility. This contrast creates spontaneous artistic and expressive tension that makes her work attractive, demanding reflection and slightly controversial. However, this kind of 'controversy' is so inconspicuous, that it is necessary to get into the depth of her picture to be able to notice it. Also this is a powerful charge of her illustration.

Author of the text: Mgr. Barbara Brathová, art historian

Bibliography of Illustrated Books for Children and Youth

Keď sme boli veľké (Z. Zemaníková, H+H 1996); Náš pes má kuraciu hlavu (Š. Moravčík, Vydavateľstvo SSS 2000); Vlastiveda pre 5. ročník osobitných škôl (S. Škultétyová, Expol pedagogika 2000, 2006); Vlastiveda pre 5. ročník špeciálnych základných škôl. Pracovný zošit (S. Škultétyová, Expol pedagogika 2006); Vlastiveda pre 6. ročník špeciálnych základných škôl. Pracovný zošit (S. Škultétyová, Expol pedagogika 2001, 2015); Vlastiveda pre 6. ročník špeciálnych základných škôl (S. Škultétyová, Expol pedagogika 2001, 2014); Ponitrianske povesti a povrávky (Z. Zemaníková, Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej 2001); Rozprávky (K. J. Erben, DXL 2002); Lulukaj (Z. Zemaníková, Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej 2003); Zlatá kniha Záhoria (Š. Moravčík, Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej 2003); Povesti o slovenských hradoch (Š. Moravčík, Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej 2004); Zuzka a robot Kazisvet (Z. Zemaníková, Regent 2006); Ako klobúk stratil hlavu (Š. Moravčík, Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej 2006); Záhorácke rozprávky (Š. Moravčík, Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej 2007, 2008); Mrázik a iné ruské rozprávky (Perfekt 2008); Ypsilon 1 , Pracovný zošit : slovenský jazyk pre 1. ročník základnej školy s vyučovacím jazykom maďarským (A. Halászová, Terra 2008, 2017); Za tajomstvami mesta (K. Šudová-Tomčániová, Marenčin PT 2009); Povesti o slovenských hradoch (Š. Moravčík, Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej 2010).

Literature about the Illustrator

Slovník českých a slovenských výtvarných umělců 1950 - 2002. IX. Ml - Nou. Ostrava : Výtvarné centrum Chagall, 2002, s. 54. ISBN 80-86171-14-0.

BRATHOVÁ, Barbara: Daniela Moravčíková. In Slovenská detská kniha. Zost. Ľubica Kepštová. Bratislava : Literárne informačné centrum, 2008, s. 134-139. ISBN 978-80-89222-57-5.

BRATHOVÁ, Barbara: Slovak United Imagi Nations. Bratislava : Literárne informačné centrum, 2009, s. 210-215. ISBN 978-80-89222-75-9.