Michel El Mir

Michel El Mir was a Lebanese Maronite painter known for his vibrant and instinctively constructed figurative paintings. He worked the paint in a quick and expressive manner, covering the canvas with vivid colors and adding signs to clarify the subject. His style was influenced by his time in Damascus and the autonomy of the canvas, which gave him a new personal status and freedom from the motif and commission. El Mir’s paintings embodied a sensual classicism, marked by a desire for immediate plastic response and an anxious exploration and construction of the canvas.