Master Dumitru Pop from Săpânţa is a famous sculptor and painter of funerary monuments. He is one of the disciples of Ioan Pătraş Stan, the one who founded the Merry Cemetery from Săpânţa and Dumitru Pop continued his work and carried on the tradition.

Master Dumitru Pop was nine years old when he took his first lesson from the famous wood carver and painter Stan Ioan Pătraş. He studied with him for nine years and after the death of Stan Ioan Pătraş, in 1977, Dumitru Pop continued his work and became a famous sculptor and painter of funerary monuments, his works reaching all corners of the world.

The Merry Cemetery is unique in the world, due to the funerary monuments that have written stories about the lives of the deceased and suggestive pictures made in the famous Blue of Săpânţa. The stories written on the crosses are not funny, but rather carefree, a little sad or even disturbing - from the worst drinkers in the village to the young people who died in World War II. The occupation of the deceased is described mainly by paintings, which suggests that these people were defined by their occupation.

The Merry Cemetery is not necessarily cheerful, the approximately 850 colorful wooden funerary monuments and suggestive paintings give it its name.

Colors, naive folk art and a different view of life and death is the description of this cemetery to which the master Dumitru Pop fully contributed.