Antun Motika | |
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| Born | Antun Motika 30 December 1902 |
| Died | 13 February 1992 (aged 89) |
| Known for | Painting |
Antun Motika (30 December 1902 – 13 February 1992) was a Croatian artist. He was an innovative artist, not attached to any particular artistic school or tendency.[1] Motika was a prolific painter, who left behind a great legacy.[2]
Although he occasionally painted with oil on canvas, he generally preferred watercolor or gouache, whose application he preceded with a series of preparatory drawings in pencil or charcoal. From 1941 until his retirement in 1961, he worked at the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb, where he taught various courses. His paintings from the Cycles of Mostar are considered the most radical abstract landscapes in Croatian modernism.[3] Motika's exhibition Archaic Surrealism (1952), produced a strong reaction among Croatian critics, and is considered "the boldest rejection of the dogmatic framework of socialist realism."[3] The exhibition has become the main topic of theoretical and ideological discussion among Croatian critics.[4]
- ^ "Artwork by Antun Motika". zbirka motika.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
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