Today on A Portfolio, we close out the week with the great works of Ivana Štulić, a New York-based Croatian artist that was one of our favorites at New York Academy of Art when we saw her work a few years ago. What she told in an interview a few years ago, “I believe I can best embody my ideas through figurative representation. When I think about the composition of the image it’ll start off with an initial vision, almost like how I imagine a cinematographer composing films, and paint until these visions are realized. It sounds sort of chaotic, but I see this process as quite simple. Although my paintings are figurative, I don’t want my images to be…