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Etel Adnan BIOGRAPHY
1925 Beirut, Lebanon - 2021. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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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.
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