| Ivan Milat-Luketa | |
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Ivan Milat-Luketa 1985 |
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| Born | January 7, 1922 Blato, Croatia |
| Died | August 3, 2009 (aged 87) Kutina, Croatia |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Field | Painting, Drawing, Sculpting |
| Works |
Museum Kutina, 1961 |
Ivan Milat-Luketa (January 7, 1922 – August 3, 2009) was a Croatian painter and sculptor. He is a painter of the modern era in Croatian art history.
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Ivan Milat-Luketa was born on January 7, 1922 in Blato, Croatia.[1] In 1925, soon after his father had died, he moved to Dubrovnik where he finished primary and grammar schools. In 1945 he attended the Academy of Art in Zagreb and studied sculpture and painting. He graduated in the class of Oton Postružnik. He got a number of awards and prizes for his artistic work [2][3][4]
Milat has obligated many of Croatian homelands with his exquisite landscapes which recorded a vanishing time. Numerous drawings, canvases and aquarelles make today a particular history of Pula, Dubrovnik, Županja, Kutina and Desinić.
His impressionistic eye has syntesized and preserved the best of the tradition of the Zagreb's Academy of Art. He is famous by his portraits and still-life paintings. He is the author of one extraordinary bronze monument, situated in the cemetery of the city of Kutina, a liric effigy of two young pioneers.
Art critic Juraj Baldani[5] on creativity of Ivan Milat: "Spontaneity of creation, sincerity in experience, and mastery in performance are the elements of this creativity. He has never torn the straight connection with his impulses and inspirations, with the nature and surrounding people. By building in his art into life, Ivan Milat has been drawing the knowledge from the daily, finding the truth in the simplicity, longing for the beauty through emotions. He has been the painter of the actuality of his life's space and time."
Painter of op-art and new tendencies Miroslav Šutej[6] on Milat's portraits: "We see that he is occupied by a need for rendering the minute feeling. He picks the themes which, by their natural spontaneity, force him to be direct. Made very quickly, those drawings radiate the charm of the moment of the uncatchable childrens world."