11 Women Artists Who Shaped Post-War Abstraction
Millen Brown-Ewens, Artsy
March 2024
Born in Belo Horizonte, Lygia Clark began her artistic journey as a painter in the 1940s, associated with the Grupo Frente, a Brazilian avant-garde movement. By the 1950s, she had transitioned from geometric abstraction to a more interactive and participatory form of art, co-founding the Neo-Concrete movement, which focused on phenomenological observation in its rejection of strict formalism. Clark’s work evolved into three-dimensional and sensorial experiences that fulfilled the artist’s belief in the potential of art to elicit direct and visceral response. […]