Lygia Clark

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Lygia Clark was a pioneering Brazilian artist known for her influential role in Neo-Concrete art and her participatory, sensory-based works that blurred the boundaries between art and viewer.

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Lygia Clark canonical 5
Lygia Clark (artist) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Brazilian artist
artist
human
visual artist
artisticFocus relationship between body and space
sensory perception
therapeutic dimensions of art
viewer participation
associatedWith Brazilian avant-garde
Rio de Janeiro art scene
birthName Lygia Pimentel Lins
canonization key figure in Neo-Concrete movement
countryOfCitizenship Brazil
developed interactive objects for viewer participation
fieldOfWork installation art
painting
performance-related practices
sculpture
genre abstract art
experimental art
hasGender female
hasWorkCharacteristic emphasis on touch and bodily sensation
requires viewer interaction
use of simple, everyday materials
influenced contemporary installation artists
participatory art practices
influencedBy Concrete art
European modernism
languageOfWorkOrName Portuguese
legacy major influence on contemporary participatory and relational art
movement Neo-Concrete movement
surface form: Neo-Concrete art

Neo-Concrete movement
surface form: Neo-Concretism

conceptual art
contemporary art
installation art
participatory art
name Lygia Clark self-link
nationality Brazilian
notableFor blurring boundaries between art and viewer
interactive art
participatory artworks
sensory-based works
notableIdea art as a sensory and participatory experience
dissolution of the traditional art object
occupation artist
visual artist
placeOfActivity Brazil
Rio de Janeiro

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Escola Nacional de Belas Artes hasNotableAlumni Lygia Clark
this entity surface form: Lygia Clark (artist)
Lygia Clark name Lygia Clark self-link
Hélio Oiticica associatedWith Lygia Clark
Ernesto Neto influencedBy Lygia Clark