This article celebrates the life and work of Etel Adnan, a Lebanese-American poet and artist who is considered one of the most accomplished Arab-American authors of her era. Adnan's diverse body of work includes poetry, novels, essays, oil paintings, films, sculpture, and tapestries. Born in 1925 to a Greek mother and a Turkish father, Adnan grew up in a multilingual environment and studied philosophy in France and the US. She also taught philosophy of art at the Dominican University of California.
In 2003, the multidisciplinary artist was described as 'arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab-American author writing today'
The daughter of a Greek mother and a Turkish father, Adnan spoke Greek and Turkish at home, attended a French language school and lived in a primarily Arabic-speaking country. She said: “Mixing colours is very engaging because you witness the birth of a new colour. It’s really a birth, like a child arriving. You put in a particular red, you put in a white, and you have a pink that you’ve never seen before and that helps with the following stage. I play by ear, as they say.”
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