Asfour believes Al Basha has special characteristics. Lebanese artists expose a superior manner and performed their art in symbolic paintings with many pictorial traces. They also have a lively expression of imagination, free from dogmatism. This is not to forget Lebanese artists were the leaders in fine art in the Arab world by the late 19th century, Dr Asfour explained. But Halim Jurdaq s transmutation of his thoughts about freedom are more explicit, when he painted four young women in the nude, presenting them in different angles.
Murals present different art depiction s.
Munir Najem shows his fondness of Arabian nights by molding Oriental art with a western one. He also used oil paintings, mainly deep blue and lively green, in a colorful epicure. Sethya Manokyan, meanwhile, is one of those influenced by the civil war in Lebanon. She painted a young woman wearing a deep blue and green dress with a scarf stuck on her nose swaying in the wind. Manokyan called the painting Testimonies , and is one of her famous works that illustrate the negative impacts of the civil war on the social life in Lebanon.