Asaad Renno's Painting Exhibition

The young Lebanese artist Asaad Khalil Renno returned recently from Spain after spending three years touring its capitals. He obtained the diploma of professor of oil painting and sculpture from the Royal Fernando University in Madrid, together with the gilded Order of Practical Merit.

At the Autumn Exhibition in the year 1954 he presented to the Sultan of Morocco an oil painting which won the first prize and eased his way to an audience before His Majesty on two occasions.

Mr. Renno returned to his homeland Lebanon and held the first exhibition of his canvases in the hall of the UNESCO Palace, under the supervision of the arts department of the Ministry of National Education; His Excellency the President of the Republic opened it on Tuesday, the first of last November.

Great crowds poured in to view Mr. Renno's production. This is a happy sign, showing that art has become for us one of the pleasures of modern life — enriching it, beautifying it, and completing it — after having been a luxury enjoyed by the few among the elect of the educated.

Mr. Renno is a gifted artist who has raised his country's name in Spain, the land of art and creation.