AN OUTSIDER
Lygia Pimentel Lins was born in Belo Horizonte, one of the largest cities in Brazil. She described her childhood as hard and felt like an outsider in her family. Lygia was married at eighteen and moved to Rio de Janeiro. After her third child was born, she started taking art classes with modernists Roberto Burle Marx and Zélia Ferreira Salgado.
PARIS PAINTINGS
Lygia was talented, and her husband and friends encouraged her to go to Paris to study painting. In 1950, Lygia moved to Paris with her children and studied with other abstract artists. There she made a series of geometric oil paintings, charcoal portraits of her kids, and pictures of ...
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