Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Novak

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 joined 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 still works as a full professor and served as dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he is intensely involved in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre projects both domestically and internationally, as well as several films and television productions. He is also the author of several visual interventions in public spaces. In 1996, a monograph authored by Tonko Maroević was published about him. He has received numerous awards for painting and scenography, and the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atačevo’s existence in the field of painting is marked by works first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous people in expressive movement, nudes, and numerous self-portraits. From the very beginning, the author inherits a sense for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and distinct artistic commitment. 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 the virtuosity of a master who does not suppress expression with figurative expression.