Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Female Nude

He was born in 1945 in Koprivnica. After completing 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 Professor Miljenko Stančić and immediately became a collaborator in the master workshop of Professor K. Hegedušić, and in 1973 he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he still works as a full professor and for a time served as dean. Alongside painting and graphics, he intensively engaged 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 by Tonko Maroević. He has received numerous awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica Hrvatska for merits in culture. Atačevo’s existence in the field of painting was marked by works — the first created during his involvement with the “Biafra” group (since 1970), expressive portraits of famous individuals, nudes, and numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the author has 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 skilled master who does not suppress expression with figurative expression.