oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, signed and dated lower right, engraved, ''Ivan Rabuzin 1972''

Painter Ivan Rabuzin was born in Ključ in 1921 and died in Varaždin in 2008. He was a self-taught painter, one of the representatives of Croatian naivety. He is known for his paintings of hills in pastel colours, in which he repeats the structure of the circle and thus constructs the landscape and specific vision of nature. His paintings had a wide audience around the world. In addition to Croatia, he exhibited all over Europe, and in Japan, he made two ceremonial curtains. His landscapes usually dominate a large sun, which is also the case in this picture. The minutely detailed forms of flowers in the lower zone, and the rounded hills dominated by tree forms create harmony in the structure of the painting. The upper zone is dominated by the sun behind clouds, of pale yellow colour. It is the illumination and the main accent to which all tones of the picture are matched. The specificity of Rabuzin's landscapes, which are mostly variations of the relations of clouds, sun, hills, trees and flowers, reduced to repeating forms, is unique in our naivety. Unlike most of our naive painters, Rabuzin does not depict genre scenes from peasant life, does not make social comment, nor translates rural culture and folk traditions into a surreal register. His paintings are full of pure enjoyment of the nature of Zagorje hills and its simple beauty. FG

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