Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Female Nude 3

He was born in 1945 in Koprivnica. After finishing high school, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. During his studies, he became involved with the work of the Student Experimental Theatre. He graduated in the class of Prof. Miljenko Stančić and immediately became a collaborator in the master workshop of Prof. K. Hegedušić, and in 1973 he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he now works as a full professor and was dean for a time. Alongside painting and graphic arts, he intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatrical projects domestically and internationally, as well as several film and television productions. He is also the author of several visual interventions in public spaces. In 1996, a monograph was published bearing the signature of Tonko Maroević. He has received numerous awards for painting and scenography, as well as the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atać’s existence in the field of painting is marked by works—those first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous persons in expressive movement, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has inherited a sense of the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation is nudes submerged in water, where drawing is replaced by the dominance of pure painterly treatment of the surface with color, revealing the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression through figurative expression.