Danica Đurović (1925 - 2001), sometimes Danja, was a Montenegrin painter. Born in

Cetinje Cetinje (, ) is a town in Montenegro. It is the former royal capital (''prijestonica'' / приjестоница) of Montenegro and is the location of several national institutions, including the official residence of the president of Montenegro ...

, Đurović was first educated at the Academy of Applied Arts at the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

, the art school of

Herceg Novi Herceg Novi ( cyrl, Херцег Нови, ) is a coastal town in Montenegro located at the Western entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 in ...

, and the Pedagogical Academy in

Nikšić Nikšić ( cnr, Никшић, italic=no, sr-cyrl, Никшић, italic=no; ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 56,970 located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot ...

; her first career was as a teacher. She took painting lessons in the studio of the Ministry of Culture in Cetinje, and later worked with

Milo Milunović Milo Milunović (6 August 1897 in Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro – 11 February 1967 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFRY) was a distinguished Yugoslav and Montenegrin painter. He dabbled in both Impressionism and Cubism. Biography Milunović ...

in his studio. Milunović influenced her early choice of subjects, such as still lifes, but she soon moved in a more expressionistic direction stylistically. This phase concluded with a further turn towards abstraction, in which recognizable forms are simplified and rearranged. She returned to early themes in her later painting. Đurović is represented in the collection of the Art Museum of Montenegro. She died in

Podgorica Podgorica (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Подгорица, ; Literal translation, lit. 'under the hill') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Montenegro, largest city of Montenegro. The city was formerly known as Titograd ...

in 2001.''Painters of Montenegro''. Originated and developed by Bato Tomašević; text by Mladen Lompar; photographs by Dragoljub Zamurović; ranslator Magde Phillips Tomašević Podgorica: Atlas Group: CID, 2010 (Beograd: Publikum), pp. 102-103

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