Lygia Pape
Brazilian visual artist and sculptor
Lygia Pape was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Wikipedia
Born: April 7, 1927, Nova Friburgo, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: May 3, 2004 (age 77 years), Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Periods: Neo-Concrete Movement and Concrete art
Books: Lygia Pape
Known for: Sculpture, engraving, film
Movies: Eat Me, Apocalipopótese, Os Bigodes da Aranha, and more
Notable work: Tecelares(1959), Livro da Criacao(1959), Ttéias(1979)
Lygia Pape was a Brazilian Neo-Concrete artist whose work not only questioned the aesthetics of geometric abstraction, but also sought to voice her cultural ...
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Born in 1927 in Nova Friburgo, Lygia Pape lived and worked in Brazil until her death in Rio de Janeiro in 2004. Pape studied philosophy at the Universidade ...