Miodrag B. Protić (1922-2014)
Miodrag B. Protić was born in Vrnjačka Banja, 1922. and died in Belgrade in 2014. He attends the Mladen Jošić school of painting since 1943. In November 1946, he exhibited for the first time at the 3rd Artists’ Association of Serbia ‘s exhibition in Belgrade, and he has a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and arts from 1951. He wrote the art critique for NIN between 1952 and 1958. He was one of the founders of the December group . In 1955, he published his first book of critiques , Contemporaries . He wrote a large number of studies, essays and critiques on Serbian and Yugoslavian visual art. Upon the formation of the Modern Gallery in 1959, he was set as director. It later grew into the Museum of Contemporary Art , and he was at the helm of it unit l 1980. he exhibited at the Biennale in Sao Paolo in 1965. He was an associate member of the Yugoslavian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1966. He is the winner of numerous awards including ” The international UNESCO award at the Biennalein Venice in 1956, The October award of the city of Belgrade that same year, First Place at the Blue Salon in Zadar in 1974. and NIN’s Dimitrije Tucović prize for his book Shape and time book.