1 — Seventy-seven painters and sculptors, Lebanese or resident in Lebanon, took part in the exhibition; some 300 paintings and statues of theirs were shown.

2 — The guiding address with which Dr. Charles Malik, Minister of Education and Fine Arts, opened the exhibition was marked by depth and by a call to create the loftier and the better.

3 — The output of the young artists predominated in this exhibition, and much of it is influenced by the modern schools.

4 — The prize of His Excellency President Chamoun was awarded to the sculptor Michel Basbous. What I admire in this young sculptor is his courage, his struggle with matter, and his attempt to express something... something obscure that lurks in the material and defies the artist's hand... We should like to see these bodies, folded in upon themselves, move and dance and sing...

5 — Copying and the following of "fashion" abound in the paint-ings, because artists seldom express their true feeling. Gibran's drawings express his feeling faithfully, but they lack a certain maturity that would make of Gibran the greatest Lebanese artist.

6 — Youssef Howayek's "studies," too, express a deep feeling — he may be the deepest of the Lebanese artists of the twentieth century in expressing his feeling — but these studies, as they were displayed, were lost in an unsuitable setting and lighting.

7 — Omar Onsi's watercolors are faithful to the Lebanese village...

8 — The efforts of Mr. Fouad Haddad, head of the Arts Department in the Ministry, are appreciated and deserving of thanks...