Tomislav Petranovic Rvat-Thoma

Tomislav Petranovic (also known as Rvat or THOMA) was born in village of Prvca, near Nova Gradiska in Croatia, in 1934. He graduated from the Art Department of the Teacher Training College in Zagreb in the class of professor Mladen Veza.(today is a part of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb)
Tomislav Petranovic persued caricature, design, stage design, acting, satire etc.He started painting in 1966, and is professional painter since 1972. Critics consider his work to be oneiric, labeling it as poetic surrealism.
Tomislav Petranovic Rvat-Thoma took part in some 100 group exhibitions and held around 30 one-man exhibitions.His works are part of many museums, galleries and significant public & private collections worldwide. In year 2016/17, Nova Gradiska Town Museum hold retrospective exhibition "50 paintings for 50 years of painting". During same event the monograph (also in English) written by Academic & Art Writer Tonko Maroevic was published!

Graduated from the Art Department of the Teacher Training College in Zagreb (today is part of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb), but don't forget that I graduated from Gymnasium, from which I was twice unfairly expelled, at age 25!

I had more than 100 Group Exhibitions, more than 30 Solo Exhibitions, Two Artists Monographs, my Paintings are in the Museums and Private collections, I got prizes & medals, my Artistic work span for more than 50 years, my last oil was done in 2012, my last work was done in 2016.
My Retrospective Exhibition was in 2016-17.
I done what I have to! Art Flame is carrying further by my Junior !!!
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