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23 nov 2002 · Known primarily as 'Matta,' Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren was born in Santiago, Chile on November 11 th, 1912. The son of a Chilean father and a Spanish mother, Matta grew up in a strictly Catholic, upper middle-class home. His mother was well read and highly cultured, fostering Matta's interest in art, literature, and languages.
Matta: The Eye of a Surrealist is a 60-minute documentary about Roberto Matta, the most profound and important painter of the 20th Century to come out of Latin America. With artwork that spans over half a century, he surpassed membership in the Surrealist group, stimulated the development of the Abstract Expressionist School of Painting in New ...
Roberto Matta. Born Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurran in 1911 in Santiago, Chile, Matta studied architecture and interior design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He left his native country for Paris in 1931. Later on, he lived in New York for ten years and in 1948, definitely settled in Europe, spending much of the ...
Roberto Matta once described his abstract paintings as "psychological morphologies." His epic surreal canvases from the 1940s and 1950s depict cosmic landscapes populated by bold hovering shapes. The atmospheric quality of In the Palm of Dawn contributes to set the mood of a dramatic scene capturing the fluctuating energy of natural forces.
24 apr 1999 · Matta. aThis exhibition looks at the career of Roberto Matta Echaurren (Santiago de Chile, 1911 - Civitavecchia, Italy, 2002) through over one hundred works produced on canvas and paper between 1936 and 1998. More than solely a retrospective, the exhibit represents an exercise in considering Matta's work and its place in the history of twentieth century art.
The Vertigo of Eros is what Matta called an “inscape,” one of a series of imaginary landscapes he conceived of as projections of his psyche. In 1939, to escape the war in Europe, Matta emigrated from Paris to New York, where he stayed until 1948. His use of spontaneous, unplanned “automatic” drawing and his interest in mysticism ...
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren, “Matta,” is considered one of the great Surrealists and is widely acclaimed for his critical—and catalytic—influence on the development of Abstract Expressionism and on his contemporaries, including Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell.
