Kahlil Gibran\'s artistic expression took two distinct and seemingly unrelated paths as he produced in parallel numerous symbolist paintings and a series of portraitures.
Long before it became an artistic project, portraiture featured pro.
Portraiture had always been Gibran\'s medium for connecting with people.
The former survived in the illustrations of his seminal book The Prophet and a sundry of other publications, while Gibran\'s portraiture works have remained relatively unknown.
Kahlil Gibran\'s artistic expression took two distinct and seemingly unrelated paths as he produced in parallel numerous symbolist paintings and a series of portraitures