Vlado Tuđa rođen je 6.3.1951. godine u Zagrebu. Godine 1970. odlazi u Nizozemsku u Rotterdam gdje studira slikarstvo na Academie Van Beeldende Kunsten Rotterdam. U rotterdamskoj luci (u središtu grada), Parkhaven 21, živi i radi na brodu. Atelijer mu je u kapetanskoj kabini na vrhu broda odakle se pruža pogled na cijeli grad, kanale i Sjeverno more. Izlagao je na 45 samostalnih izložbi i više od tridesetak skupnih izložbi u Nizozemskoj, Njemačkoj, Belgiji, Danskoj, Rusiji, Češkoj i Americi. U Nizozemskoj okuplja svoju likovnu grupu četvorice (četiri nacije) i s njima izlaže. Dobitnik je brojnih nagrada i priznanja između ostalog:

1980. – 3. Smotra likovnog stvaralaštva, 2. nagrada Grada Zagreba.
1986. – 1. nagrada za slikarstvo (likovno stvaralaštvo radnika Grada Zagreba), priznanje Večernjeg lista.

Dugogodišnji je davatelj svojih djela u humanitarne svrhe, ilustrator raznih časopisa i novina. U trenutku povratka u domovinu ne nalazi na otvorenost prema svojoj umjetnosti kakvu je imao u Nizozemskoj te se zbog toga povlači u svoj mir, u atelijer na Velikom vrhu (obronci Medvednice), gdje neumorno stvara, slika i kipari. Ne izlaže više od 25 godina. U tom vremenu stvorio je više od 2000 djela, koja od 2006. godine aktivno predstavlja likovnoj javnosti.
Sudionik je likovnih kolonija: Čapljina, Vugrovec, Neum i Oroslavje
O njegovu grofovskom podrijetlu i ostalim pojedinostima više informacija možete pronaći na internetskim stranicama i linkovima – Grofovski radovi slikara Vlade Tuđe.

PRESS I STRUČNE KRITIKE

Prof. Mira Rukavina, prof. Antun Crljen, dr. Dubravko Orlić, Boždar Matković, Branko Nikšić, Mirko Novak, Villem Hofstra, dr. Ivan Škreblin, Ivan Lacković Croata, Nico Vanderendt, Ivo Strahonja, Simo Milivojević, Vuko Dragašević, Slavko Orlić, Mirko Šimek, Fritz Behrent, Josip Depolo, Tomislav Hruškovec, Koos Postema, Herman Stock, Leen Post, Hermann Sonne, Ilija Radovčić,Tarik Ajanović, Mladen Belovitić, M. A. Pijneburg, Fred Falkema, Jasna Peterkalinić, G. Vos, Kiki Kikkert, Mirko Rogošić, Ante Perković, Josip SKunca,Ted van Melick, Zvonimir Zmajić, prof. Juraj Baldani, Kamilo Burger, Franjo Mrzlak, Mladen Veža, Dolg Welling, Slavko Dabić, Milena Metz, Boris Adamek, Zika Prodanović, Jan Limbourg, Kruno Sabolić, Henk, Honing, C J. van Ginkel, Inga Baas, Bertus Schimdt, prof. dr. Antun Bauer, Elena Cvetkova, Stjepan Mažar, Olja, Kosanović, Marina Baričević, Astra Božiković, Cino Handl, Pero Homovac, Zvonko Blažević, Nankv de Vreeze, Goran Starčević, Josip Pavičić, Zoran Zoković, Walter de Brujin, Corn Basoski, Ante Ravlić, Darija Marjanović, Ana Mirenić, Jadranka Rilović, Diego Ponce, Boro Pavlović, Jadranka Jureško-Kero, Ivana Živković-Mikec, Robert Berry, Betsy Davison, El Kazan, Lana Filipin, prof. dr. Andro Mohorovčić, Marijan Kolesar, Mirko Milutinović, Slavko Orlić, Marijan Grakalić, Ad Lobler, Zeljko Cerjan,Tonino Picula, Mirko Fodor, Vedrana Kralj, Mirjana Greblo, Zrinka Pillauer Marić, Zoran Radiković, Zrinka Krešo, Joško Matinović, Lidija Špiranec, Frane Erceg, Kruno Sabolić, Edo Peročević, Boris Pavlenić, Davor Meštrović, Lidija Tocilj, Sirmnone Dilaura, Maja Uštar-Njurš, prof. Stanko Špoljarić, Bojana Radović, Dorotea Jendrić, Mirko Bolfek, prof. Andro Mohorovičić, Pavao Parat, Snježana Štefanek, Marija Borić, Ljiljana Bogojević, HanaTabaković, Ivica Lovrić, Lana Zagorščak (Vijuga portal), Lenka Laić, Daruvar portal (Radio), N. Havranek, Vugrovec portal, Jaska portal, Dalibor Rohlik, Zdenko Vuković Cana, Veronika Pilat (Čapljina), Ivica Matić (Neum), Sanda Stanačev Bajzek, Portal Gricni, Hanibal Salvaro, Labudović Mišo,Tedi Lušetić, Natalija Kladić-Lumezi, Marina Gavranović, Nenad Mađerić, Darinko Kosor, Zoran Batušić,Tonko Maroević, Mira Marenić-Toljan, Ljiljana Saucha, Paolo Giorgio, Vlatko Marić, Roberto Ambroz!, Branka Prišlić, Duško Šibi, prof. Stanko Špoljarić, Tomislav Kuliš, Emilio Terpin, Robert Daccia, BranimirTurkalj, Damir Murković, Mario Raguž, Zrinka Krešo, Vlatka Kolarević, Igor Brešan, Marija Barić, Damir Barešić, Ljilja Kerepčić, Mladen Miličić, Roberta Terpin, Veljko Skenderija, Štef Kordić, Lidija Fustin, Ivan Tuđa, Elizabeta Škvorc, Stipe Bučar, Miroslav Pelikan, Bojana Radović, Dragan Ruljanćić, Damir Bednjanec, Tomislav Petrač, Mario Britvić, Vlado Klasnić, Marta Šimić Mrzlečki, Marinko Leš, Zvonko Radiković, Mirko Bolfek, Lidija Špiranec, Vedrana Kralj, Blaženka Leib, Dorotea Jendrić, Ana Lendvaj, Antun Bukovec, Jovica Drobnjak, Mladen Miličić, Ivica Krčelić, Jelena Škrabe, ljiljana Hranilović, Maja Ivčić, Mario Raguž, Zeljko Senečić, Livija Radeva Destradi, BranimirTurkalj, Doris Pack, Vlatko Marić, Jovica Drobnjak, Slava Pavić, Iva Tuđa, Stjepan Mažar, Marijan Galeković, Natalija Kladić, Lazar Lumezi, Dada Zečić Pivac, Marina Čubrilo, Petra Piter Kalinić, Blanka Stančić, Boris Glumac, Lana Rlipan, Maja Uštar Njirš, Simone Dilaura, Mladen Boljat, Luka Špac, Vladimir Maleković, Branka Prišlić, Igor Brešan, Duško Ljuština, dr.Vjekoslav Jeleč.

“The enthusiasm for painting and life characterizes the work of Vlado Tuđa in the pleasant and provocative ambience of the painting, in the transformations of the original motif, with works, and the constant meditative and eruptive, fertile freshness of expression. His artistic curiosity led him to the joys, anxieties, bizarre and idyllic concepts, and above all to the essence of the great and small things in the episodes of human existence. The paintings are also metaphors and reflections of the arena of our everyday life.

In his paintings, Tuđa developed a peculiar view of figuration with an interesting synthesis of realistic precision and expressionist freedom. In the gradual exclusion of the motif’s imposition, Tuđa also adopts a way of abstract expressionism, where the subject becomes an autonomous visual form. From the elements that make Tuđa’s stylistic crossword, an important link is the tendency to deform the shape, that is, to steer away from the usual, which is, according to some, the coordinate of shape that is close to the world of Picasso’s genius. Not as a replica of the work of this great master, but as a dialogue established in the context of the inner encounter, some general places, universal in the perception of beauty as a concept adopted in our time. Tuđa also applies the Cubist principle of ambivalence of representation (a multi-sided depiction of a face, or multiplicity of fragments of the figure), similarity also lies in Picasso’s surrealist treatment of the figure and other fascinating aspects of painting. Tuđa’s artistic sensitivity touches the individual shapes of that impressive work, which led to him being named the Croatian Picasso. But not as an epigon, who would only reinterpret his accomplishments, but as a painter on his own path, searching and also wandering in order to achieve the authenticity of the expression. And, without a doubt, he is in constant awe of Picasso’s artistic strength and inventiveness.
On the creative path of five decades, Tuđa has sensibly changed his attitude towards shaping the figure and, in a certain way, towards the multi-layered aspect of the content. He has approached the depiction of the everyday life by describing it factually and enriching it with intriguing imagination. With a certain note of the literary, woven into the work with unparalleled background in artwork, Tuđa follows the usual and unusual situations by developing his painting “stories”from the emphasized legibility of the motif to the paradoxical threshold.”
Stanko Špoljarić