Ivana Vidovic

I am Ivana Vidovic, from Split, Croatia.
I studied philosophy, sociology, marketing and sales, but I always painted.
I grew up with paintings on the walls,since my great-grandfather was Emanuel Vidovic, famous Croatian modernist painter %C4%87
He and my grandfather after him, collected paintings so instead of the posters that most teenagers looked at, I looked at our paintings: Job, Dulčić, Pulitika, Stančić, Vidović...

My father and I shared the love for Gauguin, Van Gogh, Chagall, Toulouse Lautrec, Cezanne... We would go through little books we had of so many artists and he would teach me about different styles and the artists' lives.

I decided as a young woman to not study arts, influenced by Kafka, a writer who didn't want to study literature.

I love the innocence of a layman speaking through the art.
The lack of skill and the authenticity of the emotion have always been appealing to me.

For some years now I create digital art on my smartphone using an app called ibisPaintX. And sometimes I combine drawing on paper with digital art.

The motifs that you will see in my paintings are philosophical. What interests me is the meaning of life, or the lack of it, loneliness vs solitude, good vs evil, and so on.

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Professor of philosophy and sociology
Marketing and sales master's degree
Manager of EU funded projects

I had an exhibition in my University in Zadar.
My digital art has been used as illustration for a poetry collection Sastanak u tajnosti by Ivana Buric (all except for the cover)
https://www.webknjizara.hr/knjige/poezija/sastanak-u-tajnosti-ivana-buric
I made 2 covers for a hc/punk album of the band Abergaz.

I made the graphics for a PC 2dplatformer game Super Vili which can be found here: https://affordable.itch.io/ https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656 1199143185574/ and the trailer is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA6ohC_t0Vc