Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Female Nude 2

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 currently works as a full professor and was dean for a period. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theatre projects both domestically and internationally, 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 and the Order of Danica for cultural merits. Atać’s existence in the fields of painting was marked by works—the first produced during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous persons in expressive motion, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author inherited a sense for the expression of the moment, rhythm, movement, and characteristic artistic engagement. His current painting preoccupation is nudes immersed 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 with figurative expression.