Miodrag Dado Djuric (born in Cetinje in 1933) is the Montenegrin painter of the 20th century contemporary arts and one of the most prominent representatives of the present-day figurative arts. He went to school in Herceg Novi and graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Belgrade in 1956. As of 1956, he has been living in France, in the village of Chaumont-en-Vexin nearby Paris. His works are encountered in numerous museums, galleries, and private collections and, based on them, one can form an opinion about his masterly visual art skill in which he evokes apocalyptic combinations. Dado Djuric is one of the artists who have had the greatest impact on the notion of surrealism in the art of painting. The Montenegro Post, within the issue “2010 Visual arts in Montenegro through centuries”, is issuing the commemorative postage stamp “Dado Djuric”. The author of the conceptual design is Adela Zejnilovic.
The fresco of St. Elijah Fed by the Raven from the Monastery Moraca, which was constructed by Prince Stefan in 1252, is one of the show-pieces in Montenegro. This fresco belongs to the cycle of eleven compositions from the life of the prophet Elijah created in the 13th century. The iconography represents the prophet who is meditating, and who is fed by the raven. The prophet St. Elijah from the Old Testament, who lived in the ninth century before Christ, is worshiped both by the Jewish and the Christian religions. The battle against pagans and idolaters is connected with him. In the Slavic folk religion, St. Elijah is the chief of thunders and rains. The Montenegro Post, within the issue “2010 Visual arts in Montenegro through centuries”, is issuing the commemorative postage stamp “Fresco: St. Elijah Fed by the Raven”. The author of the conceptual design is Adela Zejnilović.
