He got a number of awards and prizes for his artistic work [2][3][4] Milat has portrayed his Croatian homeland in many of his exquisite landscapes which recorded a vanishing time.
Numerous drawings, canvases and aquarelles provide a history of Pula, Dubrovnik, Županja, Kutina and Desinić.
He is the sculptor of an extraordinary bronze monument situated in the cemetery of the city of Kutina, a lyric effigy of two young pioneers.
By building in his art into life, Ivan Milat has been drawing the knowledge from the daily, finding the truth in the simplicity, longing for the beauty through emotions.
Painter of op-art and new tendencies Miroslav Šutej[6] on Milat's portraits: "We see that he is occupied by a need for rendering the minute feeling.