Đorđije Crnčević was born in Dupilo (Montenegro) in 1941. He earned his degree and PhD in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade (1972). In 1967, he started participating at numerous collective exhibitions at home and abroad and he also prepared about twenty independent exhibitions. In addition to sculpting, he also worked in graphics and painting. In 1991, he substituted the profession of an artist for tenure at the Belgrade Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts where he stayed until 2008. His works, for which he received several awards, are found in public and private collections, but also in open spaces. He participated at numerous art colonies and sculpting symposia. The artist, who fundamentally marked the contemporary art scene in Serbia in the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, died in 2013 in Belgrade. Two years later, the city dedicated a grand retrospective exhibition to him.
In his works, the Serbian artist poses questions related to the creative process, the position of the artist, and critical views of contemporary society. At the Portorož symposium he created a portrait of a poet or philosopher. This stone composition made of two parts, a horizontal rectangle and vertical oval form, does not hide its figural starting point. It is discerned from the vertical part of the sculpture. The stylised head of the philosopher has a serrated side that is supposed to depict a lively communication with the horizontal base, on which the number one is symbolically drawn. With his piece, Crnčević wanted to provoke questions linked to the search for truth and the meaning of life.