Lygia Clark
- Introduction
- Lygia Pimentel Lins (23 October 1920 – 25 April 1988), better known as Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. Along with Brazilian artists Amilcar de Castro, Franz Weissmann, Lygia Pape and poet Ferreira Gullar, Clark co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement. From 1960 on, Clark discovered ways for viewers (who would later be referred to as "participants") to interact with her art works. Clark's work dealt with the relationship between inside and outside, and, ultimately, between self and world.
- Wikidata
- Q1791520
- Nationality
- Brazilian
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Painter, Performance Artist, Sculptor
- Names
- Lygia Clark, Ligia Clark, Lygia Pimentel Lins Clark
- Ulan
- 500118001
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Read a short essay about Lygia Clark at the post website (Part
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Read a short essay about Affective Geometry, Immanent Acts: Lygia Clark and Performance at the post website (Part
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Read about works by Lygia Clark at the post website (Part
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Read about works by Lygia Clark at the post website (Part
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Read about works by Lygia Clark at the post website (Part
Three) -
Read a short essay about Affective Geometry, Immanent Acts: Lygia Clark and Performance at the post website (Part
Two) -
Read a short essay about Affective Geometry, Immanent Acts: Lygia Clark and Performance at the post website (Part
Three) -
Read a short essay about Lygia Clark at the post website (Part
Two) -
Read a short essay about Lygia Clark at the post website (Part
Three) -
Read about works by Lygia Clark at the post
website
Exhibitions
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512: Circle and Square, Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Piet Mondrian
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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413: Touching the Void
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift
May 28–Sep 12, 2020
MoMA
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417: Architecture Systems
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
Apr 15–Aug 13, 2017
MoMA
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Lygia Clark has
17 exhibitionsonline.
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Lygia Clark Composition. Staircase 1948
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Lygia Clark Untitled 1951
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Lygia Clark Breaking the Frame. Composition no. 5 1954
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Lygia Clark Planes in Modulated Surface 1956
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Lygia Clark Study for Modulated Surface no. 2 (Superfície modulada no. 2) 1957
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Lygia Clark Study for Modulated Surface no. 3 (Superfície modulada no. 3) 1957
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Lygia Clark Study for Modulated Surface no. 4 (Superfície modulada no. 4) 1957
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Lygia Clark Study for Modulated Surface no. 5 (Superfície modulada no. 5) 1957
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Lygia Clark Study for Planes in Modulated Surface (Planos em superfície modulada) 1957
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Lygia Clark Study for Planes in Modulated Surface (Planos em superfície modulada) 1957
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Lygia Clark Study for Planes in Modulated Surface (Planos em superfície modulada) 1957
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Lygia Clark Planes in Modulated Surface 4 1957
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Lygia Clark Study for Modulated Space no. 1 (Espaço modulado no. 1) 1958
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Lygia Clark Study for Modulated Space no. 2 (Espaço modulado no. 2) 1958
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Lygia Clark Counter Relief no. 1 1958
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Lygia Clark Cocoon no. 2 1959
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Lygia Clark Sundial 1960
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Lygia Clark The Inside Is the Outside 1963
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Lygia Clark Poetic Shelter 1964
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