The outing to the Sursock Museum

The outing to the Sursock museum

1- The hall of portraits:

• Tarbouch (It's the hat that we see on the head of men(.
• Difference between the paintings.
• People in the paintings have asked from the painter to draw them.
• Sculpture (منحوتة).

2-  In this hall there are portraits dated from 1940 to 1950.

Khalil Zghér:

Khalil Zghér didn't draw in 3D, he didn't know how to draw like everybody.

3- The arabic salon:

• In this salon people made meetings.
• There were more than 30 000 photos.
• Every three months they changed photos.

4- In this hall we saw photos of Egypt:

• In that period they climbed up the pyramides (which is very dangerous today).
• There were different pairs of photos that were drawn profile and face.
• The photos dated from 1860.

5-  The office of Nicolas Sursock:

• He didn't have children, he wasn't married, and he was the owner of this house which is the municipality of Beirut.
• His death: 1952.
• This museum was opened 9 years later (1961).

6-  Autumn's salon:

• We can't always understand the painting.
• All the floors have a permanent collection, which means that the museum buys the paintings and keeps them (permanent# temporary.(

7-  Some names of artists:

     P.D. Corni, Khalil Zghér, Nicolas Sursock, Manet, Fouad Dirbasse.

                                                                                                                           Fidélia Kinj

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