Ivan Milat-Luketa (7 January 1922 – 3 August 2009) was a Croatian painter and sculptor. He was a painter associated with the modern era in Croatian art.
Life Ivan Milat-Luketa was born on 7 January 1922 in Blato, Croatia.www.blato.hr 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
Works
Milat has portrayed his Croatian homeland in many of his landscapes which recorded a vanishing time. Numerous drawings, canvases and aquarelles provide a history of Pula, Dubrovnik, Županja, Kutina and Desinić.
He produced notable portraits and still-life paintings. He is the sculptor of an bronze monument situated in the cemetery of the city of Kutina, a sculptural depiction of two young pioneers.
Art critic Juraj BaldaniJuraj Baldani, Art creativity of Ivan Milat, Museum Moslavine, Kutina, 1982 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 ŠutejMiroslav Šutej, Foreword to Milat's Exhibition: "Impressions from a children's nursery school", 1978 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 children's world."
Notes
References Mladen Mitar, Ivan Milat, 55 godina Nula dies sine linea, Muzej Moslavine, Kutina, 2007, Juraj Baldani, Ivan Milat samostalna izložba, 60 godina života, 30 godina umjetničkog rada, Kutina, Muzej Moslavine, 1982
External links Muzej Moslavine 1 Muzej Moslavine 2