Miodrag B. Protić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг Б. Протић; 10 May 1922 – 20 December 2014) was a Serbian painter, art critic, theorist and historian of art of the 20th century.
Protić gained further education in Paris 1953–1954, in Italy and the United States in 1963.
From 1950 to 1959 he worked in the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture when he initiated the establishment of Modern Art Gallery in Belgrade, purchasing artwork from exhibitions and artist studios.
Beginning in 1952 he published a number of books, papers, essays, and critiques on Serbian and Yugoslav art.
He commentated for numerous newspapers and magazines, including "Glas", "Rad", "Politika", "Borba", "Danas", "Delo", "Savremenik", "Književnost", "Letopis Matice srpske", "Književne novine", and "Umetnost".