Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Robert Budor-portrait

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, and in 1973 he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he currently works as a full professor and has served as dean for a time. Alongside painting and graphics, he has intensively engaged in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about a hundred theater projects in the country and abroad as well as several film and television productions. He is also the author of several artistic interventions in public spaces. In 1996, a monograph about him was published, written by Tonko Maroević. He has received numerous awards for painting and scenography, and the Order of Danica for merits in culture. Atac’s existence in the fields of painting has been marked by works—those first created during his involvement with the group “Biafra” (from 1970), portraits of well-known persons in expressive movement, 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 painterly preoccupation is nudes immersed in water, in which 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 articulation.