Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Nude 1

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 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 served as dean for a period. In addition to painting and graphics, he intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theater projects both in the country and abroad, as well as several film and television productions. 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 many awards for painting and scenography, as well as the Order of Danica for merits in culture. His existence in the fields of painting has been marked by works—the 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 painterly preoccupation involves 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 expression.