Born on this day: #EtelAdnan (1925 – 2021) Known for her colourful abstract tapestries, leporellos and paintings, as well as her poetry, novels and plays, Etel Adnan made work that traverses culture and disciplines. In this video, produced to coincide with Adnan’s exhibition ‘Colour as Language’ at the #VanGoghMuseum in 2022, the artist discusses her sensitivity to beauty as a vital ‘inner sense’. View the full video, in which Adnan expands on her rich and multi-media practice: bit.ly/3m5fRRr Vi

Cina Aissa, Learning Assistant, shares her personal response to ‘Untitled’ 1970 by Lebanese-American artist Etel Adnan (1925-2021). ‘Coming across ‘Untitled’ through this project, I discovered Etel Adnan -- a female artist from a non-conventional background. With her heritage spanning Greece, Lebanon and Syria, Adnan brings in other languages, cultures and points of view into her prolific works across literature, poetry and visual arts. I had never heard of her even though she is still alive and

Now on view 💫 Etel Adnan's luminous paintings are an intensely personal distillation of her faith in the human spirit and the beauty of the natural world. A number of works in the exhibition depict the rising and setting sun, the image of celestial planets, and the shimmering horizon of the ocean. Learn more about the artist and to plan your visit: https://gu.gg/2YiTRHq __ Details from “Untitled” (2010); “Untitled” (2018); “Untitled” (2014) © Etel Adnan | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

➡️ Watch the magic of Etel Adnan's work unfold before your eyes. ⠀ Adnan’s art is an intensely personal distillation of her faith in the human spirit and the beauty of the natural world. She creates her paintings decisively and intuitively. Simple geometries recur throughout her work: a red square anchoring abstract forms, a bright circle for the sun, horizontal bands that suggest the sky over the ocean. ⠀ Adnan’s partner, the artist Simone Fattal, has described her works as playing “the role th