Vladimir Ivancan - Sunflowers

Flowers as a subject in themselves began to appear in still lifes, a genre that emerged in the early 17th century. Subsequently, painters, especially the Impressionists, increasingly focused on the floral world as an extraordinary opportunity to capture vibrant colors and light. Thus, flowers began to appear not only in vases, but also immersed in their natural landscape. While initially a pretext for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art, the subject of flowers also becomes a way of interpreting reality.

Vladimir Ivancan's works are highly illustrative of his artistic vision and his understanding of naive aesthetics. As we can see, naive artists focus on simple subjects (such as landscapes or still lifes in Ivancan's case) in a simplified representation of the world aimed at extolling primary values ​​of purity. Thus, the simplicity and naiveté inherent in an artist like Vladimir Ivancan are spontaneous, yet at the same time, they differentiate themselves from amateurism through the achievement of a refined and complex formal style. This is particularly evident in this Croatian painter, who recalls another very important naive painter, "Douanier" Rousseau, in simplifying reality into a pronounced and illusionistic hyperrealism. Nature, thus, takes on exotic and fairy-tale connotations, and even the vision of a simple landscape or a bunch of sunflowers is transformed into a magical episode. To achieve this poetics, Ivancan pays careful attention to every detail of the design, and the entire representation is the result of a complex system of arabesque lines. Color also plays its part, with the choice of soft opalescent hues further enhanced by the glass support.

Vladimir Ivancan was born in 1954 in Molve, Podravina. He graduated from the Technical Chemical Institute in Zagreb. His early paintings are reminiscent of Mijo Kovacic; in 1974, he began exhibiting his work in group exhibitions. He held his first solo exhibition in 1979. Around 1980, he completely freed himself from Mijo Kovacic's influence and began his own original research. In 1984, he abandoned his job as a chemical technician and became a professional painter. He has exhibited his work in over a hundred solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. He currently lives and works in Molve.

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