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Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan (1925 - 2021) was active/lived in California, Massachusetts / Lebanon, France.  Etel Adnan is known for Geometric and other abstract painting, watercolor and oil.

Adnan was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1925. She currently lives and works in Paris, France.

Education:
Paris-Sorbonne University, Paris, France University of California, Berkeley, California Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Etel Adnan’s career spans several decades and encompasses a wide range of media—including painting, drawing, tapestry, film, ceramics, and leporello artist books—as it does traditions and locations. Adnan was first an author of poetry and prose, often addressing and protesting against the turmoil of the Vietnam War and the Lebanese Civil War.

Informing her writing and later her artwork as well, was the landscape, its own history and her emotional and physical response to it. For Adnan, the landscape is mingled with memory, especially a sentiment of displacement, as she was born and raised in Lebanon, but has lived, studied, and worked in France and California throughout her life.

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