Croatian naïve painter and printmaker Ivan Rabuza studied carpentry in Zagreb and Zemun from 1937 to 1940. He graduated from the crafts school in Zagreb (master department) in 1947, and from 1947 to 1948 he took a drawing course with Kosta Angelio Radovani. He worked in a furniture factory in Novomarof, and from 1963 he devoted himself completely to painting. At first a realist, then he created imaginative, poetic landscapes in which native motifs grow into a universal vision of harmony and serenity in nature. With human and animal characters, in allegorical and surreal scenes, he emphasizes the symbolic connection between man and the earth. The sun in the paintings has great significance as a source of light, warmth and life, and its equalization in height and size with the hills and descent to the ground is an expression of the artist's anthropocentrism. In addition to the sun, often other elements of nature (flowers, hills) radiate light in the form of bright dots that spread out from them, which achieves exceptional mastery in the enchanting feeling of the magic of light. He realizes his original artistic ideas with a characteristic handwriting (circles of predominantly blue, green, pink and purple colors). He applied recognizable floral motifs to utility objects (Rosenthal porcelain) and tapestry (curtain at the Takarazuka theater in Tokyo, 1981). He creates the same motifs in etchings, which he often later colors with watercolors and aquatints.