Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Bathing Woman X

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 in 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. In 1973, he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he now works as a full professor and for a time also served as dean. Alongside painting and graphics, he has intensively worked in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre projects both domestically and abroad, as well as several film and television projects. He is also the author of several visual interventions in public spaces. In 1996, a monograph about him was published, authored by Tonko Maroević. He has received numerous awards for painting and scenography, as well as the Order of Danica Hrvatska for merits in culture. Atac’s existence in the field of painting has been marked by works — the first created during his involvement with the group ‘Biafra’ (since 1970), expressive portraits of famous persons, nudes, and numerous self-portraits. From the very beginning, the author has embraced a sense of expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation is with nudes submerged in water, where drawing is replaced by the dominance of pure painterly treatment of the surface with color, revealing all the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression through figurative imagery.