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Brazilian Art (from 20th-century)
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Lygia Pape, brazilian plastic artist, admirer of Japanese wood engravings, begins her career in 1952, in Petrópolis , encouraged by her friend Décio Vieira. Initially self-taught, she gets to know friends such as Fayga Ostrower, with whom she learns more about techniques of engraving and Oswald Goeldi, a great source of encouragement at the time, visiting his studio at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts). In 1954 Lygia takes part of the Group "Frente", made up by Ivan Serpa, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, and Franz Weissmann, among others. With the breakup of the group in 1957, she be
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