Marko Ristic was the leader and chief ideologist of Serbian surrealism. He was born on June 20, 1902 in Belgrade, where he died on 20 July 1984. He was a Yugoslav ambassador in France from 1945 to 1948, and then President of the Commission for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. He was also a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Federation Council.

He was buried in the Avenue of Honor at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.

Born in Ćuprija, educated in France - Grenoble and Nice. Started Faculty of Philosophy  in Paris, finished it in Belgrade. As a young man, he survived retreat through Albania! He was an associate in the avant-garde magazines "Zenit" and "Roads". His first solo book, a collection of essays, "One aspect of French literature" (1952), released at his age of 54. The first book of poetry, "Bagdala" (1954), when he was 56. He became a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) on December 16, 1965, and a regular member on 28th of May in 1970.

Born in Tuzla, Bosnia, Ljuba studied Fine Arts in Belgrade but was shocked by the discovery of 1959 exhibition of surrealist art from the Urvater collection. In 1960, he founded the movement ‘Mediala’, meaning ‘Honey and Dragon’, to express both the concepts of desire and fear. Ljuba arrives in Paris in 1963 and is immediately taken in by French galerists and surrealists. Living in Paris and supported by Thessa Herold’s gallery, Ljuba paints fantastical paintings, full of disturbing and desirable creatures, reminiscent of Dali’s work, according to Mandiargue’s review in 1970. Inspired by a mixture of Renaissance and Baroque painting, as well as his grandfather’s exorcisms, Ljuba’s works teems with the demons of a dark pessimism. (Les Peintres Surrealistes, Sarane Alexandrian, p.58-59).

He is the subject of the short documentary film L'amour monstre de tous les temps (1978) by Walerian Borowczyk. He was member of SANU.