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Art & Architecture
Montenegro's historic preoccupation with religion and war focused its earliest artist-
ic endeavours on sumptuously painted churches, beautifully crafted weapons and
epic poetry. The modern stereotype of the bed-wetting poet whimpering on about ro-
mantic failures or fields of daffodils had no place in macho Montenegrin society; tra-
ditionally the role of the warrior and the poet went hand in hand. Peacetime in com-
munist Yugoslavia saw a flourishing of divergent artistic expression, particularly in
the fields of painting, sculpture, cinema and architecture.
The Montenegrin language lends itself to poetry and it was once commonplace to frame formal language
in verse. A British diplomat from the time of King Nikola reported that a government minister once de-
livered an entire budget in verse.
