1 50 1 http://www.moremuseum.org/omeka/files/original/fd5c0cc23be7ab1e19d2222b25b92f94.jpg af17d05654be921f10138fd7c1164731 http://www.moremuseum.org/omeka/files/original/920b3ca9fe93e4b2e22f87ba50a5a115.jpg 5780fa6c2e30a6655fbfc99d06dc3997 http://www.moremuseum.org/omeka/files/original/028433cbdede45f5a9c5fc760d69864a.jpg 8cef806f50cd51f1142aaaeceb392455 http://www.moremuseum.org/omeka/files/original/a83f449def78766e551c0525bed47b39.jpg 1b4214dfc3b32783a8a1300901f7dee8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Antun Motika Description An account of the resource Croatian artist Antun Motika (Pula, 1902. – Zagreb, 1992.) is widely known mostly as a painter, but his experimental body of work including experiments with light and collages is being explored, rediscovered and contextualized past 10 years. Antun Motika studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, graduating in 1926 from the class of prof Maksimilijan Vanka and Ljubo Babić. Between 1928 – 1929 Motika published illustrations in the satirical magazine Koprive / Nettles. Between 1929 – 1940 he worked as a high school teacher in Mostar, and from 1941 to 1961 as a professor at the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb. Motika's art derived from the post-impressionist tradition of European painting. From the 1940s he began to experiment with collage, photocollage, decalcomania, smoke, photo-graphics, and became interested in different media and materials and organic matter, on the background of constructivist avantgarde and surrealist ideas. His exploration of nature and media culminated with experiments with organic matter and light which he began with first in 1942 and he then took a step into innovative models of the medium of the deliberation and presentation of arts, which the history of art until recently has situated on the margins of his artistic production. His parallel mostly painterly artistic practice in 1950s showed articulation of the field of painting and strong modernist syntax. His works are part of major public collections in Croatia and many private collections. He participated at the Venice Biennale in 1942. Motika exhibited extensively, and was awarded with major national awards. Two retrospective exhibitions of his work were held in 1975 and 2002. Antun Motika Collection was established in 2006 as a public collection, in his home town, City of Pula. <a href="http://www.zbirka-antun-motika.com/">http://www.zbirka-antun-motika.com/</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Motika, Antun Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Untitled (svjetlosni štafelaj, light easel) Description An account of the resource Attempting to find the “way out” of painting, and depict “the oscillation of matter”, Antun Motika tried to get closer to “the culture of light”. For Antun Motika one of the important and consistent fascinations was the obsession with “pure light” which in various manifestations stretches through his artistic production. Antun Motika’s experiments with light and the optical fascination shape his idea of liquid painting. Motika formed his most important breakthrough outside the field of painting in his various experiments with projections, light and movement, his various lumino-kinetic experiments.  Proposals and sketches for different light devices, like light easel, and different apparatuses of projection are found in Motika’s notebooks, gathering many notes on his utopian, imaginative propositions that remain that, designs of unrealized projects. Motika’s notebooks and experiments direct us outside the known artistic canon towards the the changes of artistic cartography of in 1960s. Pages from Motika’s notebook bring into light sketches for lumino-kinetic works, his experiments with light and projections, as plans for various dispositifs and possibilities of their display. Motika produced his projections with various customised projectors (slide projectors, diascopes, episcopes, overhead projectors), transparent backgrounds onto which he applied materials of different sources, organic and inorganic, insects, plants such as herbarium, then pigments, resin, liquids, in order to achieve surprising results upon their enlargement, projected to surfaces as screens. <a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/3984/1/Antun%20Motica_untitled.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Motika, Antun Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource s.d. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Benčić, Branka Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Antun Motika MoRE Museum Unknown