Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American Literary and Artistic inspiration

Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American Literary and Artistic inspiration

Etel Adnan was an extraordinary writer artist and philosopher. She had kept a footprint in the field of arts and culture. She was born in 1925 in Lebanon. Her mother was a Greek and her father was a Syrian. Therefore, she had the ingenuity of multicultural influence.

Adnan was mostly famous for her poetry essay and novels. Her artistic creativity is marked with the local cultural excitement and the condition of humanity which was influenced by the culture of Lebanon. Her literary works almost had the prosaic quality and brief exploration of her contemporary time.

But her artistic quality in prose also had been marked with intuitive verbal message. One of her notable works includes “The Arab Apocalypse”. In this long line poem Adnan narrated the reaction of the contemporary Lebanese civil war. Besides in this poem the vindictive power of destructive war was strictly criticised.

Besides, in the field of her artistic creativity, Etel Adnan was a visual artist better to say she was the artist of paintings. Her arts spoke of the colours of pictures. Her artistic paintings were also marked with the abstract form of nature, native landscape and also the landscape of Lebanon. Actually all her interest was reflected through the art of paintings. Her art traditionally cross the boundary of artistic canvas.She used poetry and painting only to mix her artistic inspiration. Her arts were mostly exhibited in the museums and galleries throughout the world. Her artistic creativity had gained appraisal and approval internationally.

Among her notable literary works in poetry, include "Moonshot" (1969), "Time" (2020), "Sea and Fog" (2011). She also set her mark in prose like "Sitt Marie Rose" (1978), "Master of the Eclipse" (2009. Besides, her notable visual arts include "Mount Tamalpais" (1985), "Le soleil a vécu" (2020) etc.

Throughout her life, Adnan showed interest in the field of social and political activities. The Lebanese civil war and the replacement from her native place exposed her experience and her active inspiration made her an artist. She was a critic of war. She also sympathized upon the native people who were tortured and humiliated in that war. Her view upon the vengeful activities during that war and the post consequences of war was reflected in the forms of her art better to say in the forms of poetry prose and her visual arts. Through her art she did not only criticized the casualty of war but she urged justice for these innocent native people through her art.

However, despite her outstanding deeds and influence, Adnan was very polite and expert to draw the pictures of her native people in the canvas of her artistic paintings. She had constantly showed interests to explore the world around her. Adnan’s works were marked to cross the boundary of art to challenge the conventional tradition.

Etel Adnan was really a visionary artist and also the writer. She had created the literary and artistic landscape through her arts. In fact, she had created her artistic view through literature and art paintings that where mainly interconnected to the contemporary civil war in Lebanon and its aftermath effect. Adnan’s legacy is really an inspiration put the upcoming artists and writers who can expose the inhumanity and humiliation of the contemporary social and political backdrop.

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