Zlatko Modrić – Psycho-Emotional Portrait 1

About the author:He was born in 1959 in Leskovac Toplički, Croatia. He graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the class of Professor Đuro Seder. He studied in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts. He participated in art colonies in Hungary, Italy, and about ten in Croatia. So far, he has held 20 solo exhibitions and participated in about a hundred group exhibitions, and he also takes part in art colonies and symposiums. He lives and works in Zagreb as an independent artist. His artistic focus and expressive signature are “psychoemotional” portraits. The main characteristic of this painting poetics is the unwavering belief that his painting construction process is a form and vision of spiritual communication. For Modrić, painting is neither a search for mimesis nor an indication of unequivocal associations but rather a systematic attempt to find a visual language that is almost impossible to put into words.