# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BtWR39rAHAS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045151-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-02-01T17:48:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.
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Lygia Clark (1920 - 1988) was a Brazilian artist involved in many art historical movements such as Constructivism, the Bauhaus, and Neo-Concretism. In her early constructivist and Bauhaus-influenced paintings and sculptures, Clark composed geometric compositions using techniques inspired by industrial and technological design. Instead of using lines, Clark put together different “planes” in order to produce invisible, or what she called “organic lines.” “What I seek is to compose a space,” Clark wrote, “and not compose in it.” In 1959, Clark along with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape, wrote the “Neo-Concrete Manifesto,” which was created in response to Concrete Art. As opposed to the objectivity that Concrete Art claimed to embody, Neo-Concrete Art sought to insert subjectivity into works. Clark’s approach to Neo-Concrete Art focused on audience participation. In her sculpture series entitled “Bichos” (critters), the audience becomes an essential part of the artwork by being able to touch and position the sculptures within the space. The interactive function of Clark’s work fundamentally changed the way art objects were regarded by putting the viewer in the role of creator. Speaking to this Clark says: "We are the proposers: our proposition is that of dialogue. Alone we do not exist. We are at your mercy...we have buried the work of art as such and we call upon you so that thought may survive through your action."
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#LygiaClark
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Image: Courtesy of Mundo de Lygia Clark-Associação Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, c. 1950s.

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