Photo: Danko Stjepanovic
Artwork Details:
Artist(s)
Etel Adnan
Title
Untitled
Date
2012
Medium(s)
Oil on canvas
Dimensions/Duration
32 x 41 cm
Credit
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Photo Caption
Untitled
Etel Adnan was a formidable poet, playwright, essayist and visual artist. Her visual vocabulary was made manifest in abstract paintings, which adopted a distinct form of lyrical expression—replacing words with intersecting lines, shapes, textures and colour. Adnan’s calculated abstract paintings were produced almost solely with a palette knife, transferring paint directly from tube to canvas. Inspired by artist Kazimir Malevich’s obsession with the spiritual and mystical, Adnan’s art evokes the relationships offered and conferred in a visual encounter with time—be it a longing glance, a searing after-image or a studied observation
![Arbres [Trees]](https://www.sharjahart.org/Thumbnail/Etel_Adnan_Arbres_Trees_-thumb.jpg)
