Oil painting on canvas, signed Branko to lower left. Dated 1980. Subject depicts still life with sunflowers in vase and candle on table. Hues of brown and yellow. Measures approx. 20 x 16 inches. Unframed. Framed art, Paradis signed art, Banko Paradis art, wall art, fine art, oil painting, still life, still life with flowers, sunflower, floral painting, sunflower 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.