#Ivan Rabuzin

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Ivan Rabuzin (Croatian,1921-2008)

Red sky

Silkscreen

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Ivan Rabuzin - Paesaeggio nel vaso. 1970

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Klovićevi Dvori Gallery Zagreb Croatia

Klovićevi Dvori Gallery Zagreb Croatia

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Ivan Rabuzin (1921-2008)

Born in Ključ, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Died in Varaždin, Croatia.

Ivan Rabuzin is everything but – naïve; his landscapes, exploding like fireworks yet consisting of very subtle shades of colors, always manage to surprise us with endless varieties of one and the same motif. While Rabuzin’s work is controlled and technically precise, it also has a powerful meditative quality. His work is distinctive, honest, and heartfelt.

Breaking Dawn, 1990

Landscape, 1990s

Pink Landscape, 1990s

White Flowers, 1990s

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Ivan Rabuzin (1921 - 2008) was a self-taught artist known for his lyrical paintings celebrating peace and love on earth. He was born in the village of Kljuc, near the town of Novi Marof, in Croatia. After he left elementary school, he learned the trade of carpentry, achieving master level at the Craft School in Zagreb in 1947. For a short period of time he attended an evening art school for workers where he was taught by the painter and sculptor Kosta Angeli Radovani. From 1950 to 1963 he worked in a joinery firm in Novi Marof, first as master carpenter, then as foreman and technical manager, and finally as acting managing director.

Rabuzin's earliest preserved drawings and paintings date from the mid 1940s and display an academic and realistic Rabuzin's earliest preserved drawings and paintings date from the mid 1940s and display an academic and realistic treatment of his subjects and a striving for impressionist effects. He began to exhibit his work in 1956. After a long period working as an amateur, in 1959 he discovered the theme of lyrical landscapes and with it his own visual language. Finding archetypal symbols in the surrounding countryside, he began to create personal and highly recognisable works. He achieved this through a process of abstraction, systematic simplification and a conscious endeavour to approximate everything to its closest geometrical form: he painted wreaths of spherical clouds, trees with round trunks, dome-shaped hills, flower and sun spheres. Rabuzin found the utmost simplicity, concision and perfection in the sphere and the circle, which were to become his symbols of the absolute, symbols of completeness.

(This is an article extract; full article in Raw Vision #52)

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Ivan Rabuzin - Flower of Hiroshima Print by finartprints

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Ivan Rabuzin (1921-2008)- On the Hills, primeval forest 1960 (detail) oil on canvas collection National Museum of Naive Art Zagreb

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Ivan Rabuzin

Breaking Dawn, 1990

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Ivan Rabuzin

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Oil paints, Canvas

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Ivan Rabuzin (Croatian,1921-2008)

Opening the sky, 1986

Screenprint

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Ivan Rabuzin (Croatian, 1921-2008), Paesaggio sotto la neve [Landscape under Snow], 1972. Oil on canvas, 61 x 81 cm.

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Ivan Rabuzin (1921 – 2008) was born in the small town of Kljuc Northeast of Zagreb, Croatia, near the Hungarian border. He was the sixth of eleven children, whose father worked as a miner to support his family. After completing four years of primary school, the young Ivan started working the family’s small parcel of land with his older brothers.

During the Second World War Rabuzin studied carpentry in Zagreb and applied his newly learnt skills in the town of Zenum. Later still, after he had started working and was again in Zagreb, he returned to the government trade school to advance his carpentry skills. There he learnt the more developed skills necessary for a Master Carpenter, and the skills associated with drafting furniture drawings. During the evenings Rabuzin followed a course in artistic drawing and was introduced to other painters in the area.

Rabuzin’s interest in painting began in around 1944 and he continued to paint whenever he could find the time in his work schedule and increasingly demanding family life. He got married, moved once again to another town and professional position, this time in a furniture factory, and starting a family.

In 1956 Rabuzin had his first solo exhibition which helped to establish his name as a noteworthy painter and further introduced him to his contemporary painters. By visiting galleries and reading literature on various artists Rabuzin expanded his knowledge of the artistic world, where he had little formal training. He described himself as ignorant about how to paint, however this naïveté did not stop him and he continued to develop. Rabuzin’s unique style crystallized in the late 1950s and early 1960s during which time his work was introduced to the world art market. He was given solo shows in Paris and Sao Paolo. In 1962 Rabuzin began to paint as a professional gaining popular acclaim over the years. He died in 2008.

Via Art and Artists, blog by poulwebb

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Ivan Rabuzin  doorofperception.com

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Ivan Rabuzin

Pink Sky, 1990s