Kauzlarić Atač Zlatko – Summer 2012 – 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 under professor Miljenko Stančić and immediately became a collaborator in the master workshop of professor K. Hegedušić. In 1973, he became an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he now works as a full professor and served as dean for a period. In addition to painting and graphic arts, he intensively worked in scenography and costume design, collaborating on about one hundred theatre projects both domestic 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, written by Tonko Maroević. He has received numerous awards for painting and scenography, as well as the Order of Danica for merits in culture. The phases of his existence in the areas of painting were marked by works – the first created 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 with nudes immersed in water, where drawing is replaced by the dominance of pure painterly treatment of the surface with color, revealing the virtuosity of a skilled master who does not suppress expression with figurative expression.