NJosip Botteri Dini
Josip Depolo

I am pleased to have been invited by the painter Josip Botteri Dini to write a short preface tor this monograph study devoted to his art, as his personal artistic message strikes close to my heart indeed and as I have been following his artistic progress with great interest for many years.
I have had an opportunity to write about Botteri and his art on two previous occasions. I
The first such occasion was in a preface to the catalogue for his one-man exibition at the Arts Gallery in Split, in March 1978, when he presented a selection of his recent paintings made in response to his experience of his beloved Dalmatia and of the European and American cities that he had visited. I noted on that occasion certain associations to a form of 'action painting' in his art, certain latent echoes of ancient Oriental art, and quite unmistakable references to Gothic glass painting.