Academic painter Marino Tartaglia He graduated from the Civil Engineering School in Zagreb in 1912, where his professors were Oton Iveković and Ivan Tišov. Then in 1912 he went to study at the Académie Suisse in Florence, where in 1918 he exhibited with the most prominent representatives of the Italian avant-garde (C. Carà, G. De Chirico) around the magazine "Lacerba" (Soffici, Papini). From 1912 to 1914, he attended the Instituto Superiore di Belle Arti in Rome. He stayed in Rome again from 1915 to 1918, when he returned to Split. He was in Vienna from 1921 to 1924. In 1925 he came to Belgrade and was one of the founders of the group "Oblik". From 1927 to 1928 he stayed in France, and from 1929 to 1931 he was again in Belgrade. From 1931 he was elected full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked until his retirement in 1964. He was elected a full member of JAZU in 1947, and a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences in 1966.

His first works were characterized by an extremely expressionistic style; he placed colors in bold relationships, in some places he came close to metaphysical painting, and in irregular anatomical forms to cubism and black plastic. Accepting Cézanne's approach and flat arrangement of chromatic masses, rich but muted colorism, he created a freer style that approached abstraction, which led him to post-war explorations of space. In the latter period, he synthesized artistic expression; he depicted motifs as color cores located in the center of the surface.