Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – 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 with the Students’ 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. Besides painting and graphic art, he is intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theater projects 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, his monograph, authored by Tonko Maroević, was published. He has received many awards for painting and scenography and the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atačevo’s existence in the field of painting has been marked by works—from the earliest created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of famous persons in expressive movement, nudes, to numerous self-nudes. From the very beginning, the artist inherits a sense of 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 representation.