Bottles and Paintings

Antun Masle (1919 - 1967) used paint, in his portraits, landscapes and still lifes, in a way that was cognate to the principles of the Fauves, and in later periods was not far from Art Brut.
The simplification of form and the stylisation of shape in Masle’s paintings were the fruit both of his having been brought up on the achievements of these directions and of a sensitive nature that was close to the imagination and expression of a child.