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The current media situation favors the explorers of the traditional gallery painiting potentialities, such as Hrvoje Puškarić. In terms of the multimedia diffusion of the visual contents, even the easel painting can be a legitimate vehicle of communication, which this young painter is aware of. In his performance we can distingwish three components: tonal paintings, nudes and structural explorations. Tonal paintings are city lights depicted in the spirit of traditional art of painting, but with the elements of modern sensibility discernible in the composition. The nudes of woman are created with a distinct sense of media images and their aesthetics the latest structural explorations penetrate into the deeper layers of the painting, beyond the figurative and representational level. All these three elements in the opus of young painter Hrvoje Puškarić bear witness to the investigative energy that will probably become oriented towards another direction. But the question is how contradictory and yet complementary these elements can be in some forthcoming painting synthesis. The explorations themselves indicate that the easel painting has a future, especially when created by painters who are aware of the contemporary media. FEĐA VUKIĆ |
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A number of "isms" in modern art, which will satisfy individual ambitions and artistic needs, and at the same time be reflection of time. Hrvoje Puškarić, also found himself on wind-swept fields in search for his vision, that includes his talent, years spend in art academy, and unease that is characteristic for a young man. Path that he chose, has respect for classic picture posture, which has even more traditional values - composition, colours and rythm. Puškarić responds on that challenge in straightforward, honest manner, with fresh and colorful vibrating harmony. Hrvoje Puškarić is the painter of capabilities we can envy. Even his early work, created in the beginning of his art adventure, confirms him as a painter of measure, balance and tender coloristic tones. Close contact with art, in the opus with bright future ahead. STANKO ŠPOLJARIĆ |
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Spirit of light and shadows inherited by virtuosity of his teachers, especially Kyodl and Jordan, was not left, untouched by the young author. Shades, and purity of the texture on the canvas, are vision of architecture, which must be understand as nature with soul, which has embeded within centuries, centuries that our civilisation code has, too. Hrvoje places nature in front of us, through an illusion of spiritual catharsis, that purifies both him as an author, and us, viewers. Nature offers a challenge, because of her longevity, which reminds us on eternity. Age is not important for reaching the goal. Composure, effort and sensibility of the author, are important, and Hrvoje Puškarić has it all. Prof. JOSIP DUJMOVIĆ |
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Hrvoje Puškarić writes down the specific fragments of homeland, on his paintings, idealizing them in effective manner. He achieves that by using different coloristic approaches, as they also have change in intensity, that responds to their ever changing reality. Author takes care of the fact that fragments he paints are recognizable, about his, certain reality, and gives us a lot - interpreting that reality from his point of view. Undoubted connection of the author and the places he paints, is constitutive and inherited by him, consciously and subconsciously in his memory. As much as the places are differently chosen, so is the way the author brings them on canvas. What they all have in common is fidelity of revelation open to the seeing of important, which comes out of the painter and his motives. Hrvoje's paintings are recordings of a specific unchangable moment, as a contrast to the nature, that changes constantly. VLADIMIR VLADO BUŽANČIĆ |
 
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Special geographic delineation and a pleasant mood, tradition and
contemporariness constitute components of a sensation of a country
which is being reified by the painter through his interpretation
of scenes in his own way. Hrvoje Puškare has transferred his encounter
with Spain, during his studies in Sevilla, in an image of genuine
adoption in which is recognizable also a particularity of a well-cultivated
landscape and customs being concentrated in a dance. Parks have
been transferredin trembling motion of painting surface, with coarse
points as building units, in compositions of a good layout and order,
and with chromatic interrelations of gradual nuancing of colors,
among which are prevailing green values. Being imbued with a light
as a guiding principle of a scene atmosphere with the light offering
a new dimension to a transformed motif. Puškarić has brought the
attractiveness of a pattern to the intimacy, balance and harmony
of both external and internal beauty, a measuredness between semblance
and twinkling of lines of force by which a factuality twinkling
of lines of force by which a factuality is conveyed in a space of
emotions. A scenery comprises both constancy and changes (through
synthesis of a testimony brought to uniqueness) and the dance is
a very motion - dynamism of figures and "exuberance" of
draperies. Touched, by a freedom of access, on authenticity of a
climate, on warmth of the country in true and figurative sense. STANKO ŠPOLJARIĆ |
   
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