By Contemporary Artists From Lebanon Imago Mundi

Lebanon - Its Always Been 2017

By Contemporary Artists from Lebanon Imago Mundi

In his well-documented dictionary of painting in Lebanon, Michel Fani offers us a sophisticated analysis of the phenomenon. By the turn of the 20th century, Beirut was vying with Cairo to be the major center for Near Eastern and Mediterranean art. An insider's guide at the 20th-century art movement in Lebanon through the reminiscences of late Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, in the classical academy of the beaux-arts, drawing was regarded as the foundation of all artistic disciplines.