Lygia Clark

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Lygia Clark Lygia Pimentel Lins (b. Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1920, d. Rio de Janeiro, 1988), aka Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist and painter. She was often associated with the Brazilian constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. She started the Frente movement in 1954. Along with Brazilian artists Amilcar de Castro, Franz Weissmann, Lygia Pape and poet Ferreira Gullar, Clark co-founded the Neo-Concrete movement---The Neo-Concretists were interested in how art could be used to express complex human realities. From 1960 on, Clark introduced ways for viewers to interact with her (often abstract) art works. She had an influence on some type designs. A partial list: In 2019, Flavia Zimbardi released Lygia at Future Fonts and writes: Lygia explores the duality of sharp and round forms with stylish cues and historical references from 16th-century masterpieces by Robert Granjon to the geometric approach of W.A. Dwiggins. An homage to Brazilian neo-concrete artist Lygia Clark, originally designed in 2017 as Flavia Zimbardi's degree project for the Type@Cooper extended program in New York. Lygia is a variable font with a weight axis. Future Fonts link. Renan Carlos Medeiros (Natal, Brazil) designed the experimental futuristic decorative typeface Lygia Clark (2013). Clarks (2021) is a modular typeface based on the work of Lygia Clark. It was designed by Pintassilgo (Erica Jung and Ricardo Marcin).	EXTERNAL LINKS Lygia Clark MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS The Brazilian type scene ⦿ Typography ⦿