The books deep blue cover, as well as the translucent blue pages boundin throughout, pays homage to this work. The precise incised lines of pape s tecelares woodcut prints. This publication brings together works spanning 1955 to 2001. Pape embraced the ideals of concrete art and geometric abstraction early. She worked across an expansive range of media, including painting, drawing, prints, sculpture, film, performance, poetry, and installation, and her art is now exhibited worldwide. A founding member of brazils neoconcrete movement, lygia pape 19272004 made art that. Concretismo e neoconcretismo slides linkedin slideshare.
This handsome book provides an extensive examination of her lengthy, prolific career. This work made the viewer deal with the tension between form and space. Pape s geometric abstractions explore rich territory through sculpture, drawing, engraving, filmmaking and installation. Lygia pape s work traverses a diverse spectra of media and genres. Clark cut one piece of metal and folded it irregularly in order to open up the pictorial support toward the viewer. Find more prominent pieces of abstract at best visual art database.
A founding member of brazils neoconcrete movement, lygia pape 19272004 made art that favored the primacy of the viewers sensorial experience. Along with helio oiticica and lygia clark, she was a formative artist in the expansion of contemporary art in brazil and pushed geometric art. As a neoconcrete artist, lygia papes livro da criacao book of creation synthesizes reason and. Lygia pape 7 april 1927 3 may 2004 was a prominent brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the concrete movement and a later cofounder of the neoconcrete movement in brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Artists book with sixteen unbound pages, some with goauche on board, paper, and string. View the photos letters of note is an internationally bestselling collection of 125 of the worlds most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, many of which are reproduced in facsimile in a carefully crafted, bookshaped museum that will grip and fling you from one emotion to the next. The book became a structure that was open to semantic investigation. The interest in this poetic and visual medium would prompt artists to approach the.
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