Oil painting on canvas, signed Branko to lower right. Dated 1986, marked J. Subject depicts landscape with pond, field, flowers, and swans in hues of blue, green, pink, and white. Measures approx. 20 x 15.75 inches. Unframed. Framed art, Paradis signed art, Branko Paradis art, wall art, fine art, oil painting, landscape painting, waterscape painting, swan painting, nature painting, home decor, wall decor, 10 Art wall American artist, Branko Paradis, was born as bombs fell in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1942. By age ten, he was trading family food for pencils and colors in order to ‘make pictures. Paradis is a Self-taught artist, who has never had any formal art training. His work was classified as Naive. It was a hard life growing up in Croatia, and Paradis ongoing dream was to make his way to America. By the 1960s, Paradis was participating in exhibitions with other Croatian artists who were part of the Naive art movement in the Balkins.