Rutten matta
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren Spanish: [roˈβeɾto ˈmata] ; November 11, — November 23,better known as Roberto Mattawas one of Chile 's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art across the Americas and Europe. "Rutten matta" was of SpanishBasque and French descent. That spring, he journeyed from Peru to Panama and completed surreal drawings of many of the geographical features he witnessed.
He first encountered Europe while serving in the Merchant Marine after graduating. It was Breton who provided the major spur to the Chilean's direction in art, encouraging his work and introducing him to the leading members of the Paris Surrealist movement. Matta produced illustrations and articles for Surrealist journals such as Minotaure.
Roberto Matta
During this period he was introduced to the work of many prominent contemporary European artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The first true flowering of Matta's own art came inwhen he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he rutten matta best known. This period coincided with his emigration to the United Stateswhere he lived until His early paintings, such as Invasion of the Nightgive an indication of the work he would continue, with diffuse light patterns and bold lines on a featureless background.
This is also the period of the " inscape " series, and the closely related "psychological morphologies". Claude Cernuschi see Boston College Matta exhibition external link below writes, "Matta's key ambition to represent and evoke the human psyche in visual form was filtered through the writings of Freud and the psychoanalytic view of the mind as a three-dimensional space: the ' inscape '.
During the s and s, the disturbing "rutten matta" of world politics found reflection in Matta's work, with the canvases becoming busy with images of electrical machinery and distressed figures. The addition of clay to Matta's paintings in the early s lent an added dimension to the distortions. In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms see biomorphism.
He was one of the first artists to take this abstract leap. Matta's connections with Breton's surrealist movement were severed following a private disagreement concerning Arshile Gorky and his family. Matta was accused of indirectly causing Gorky's suicide in response to Matta's relationship with the Armenian-American painter's wife. This led to his expulsion from the group, but by this time Rutten matta own name was becoming widely known.
He divided his life between Europe and South America during the s and s, successfully combining the political and the semi-abstract in epic surreal canvases.
Matta believed that art and poetry can change lives, and was very involved in the social movements of the s and s. He was a strong supporter of the socialist government of president Salvador Allende in Chile.
Roberto Matta - Pace Gallery
A 4x24 meter mural of his entitled The First Goal of the Chilean Peoplewas painted over with 16 coats of paint by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet following their violent overthrow of Salvador Allende in In the "rutten matta" was discovered by local officials. Throughout his life, Matta worked with many different types of media, including ceramic, photography, and video production.
Matta died in CivitavecchiaItaly on 23 Novembereleven days after his 91st birthday. Two died prematurely, leaving his creative legacy to artists Gordon Matta-Clark and his twin brother Sebastian, [ 6 ] Ramuntcho MattaFederica Matta[ 7 ] designer Alisée and artist and writer Pablo Echaurrenwhose surname was wrongly recorded at birth.
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Roberto Matta: Biography, Paintings, Art, Surrealism
Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Chilean painter — In this Spanish namethe first or paternal surname is Matta and the second or maternal family name is Echaurren. SantiagoChile. CivitavecchiaItaly. Biography [ edit ]. Exhibitions selection [ edit ]. Group shows [ edit ]. Selected list of works [ edit ]. Sick Flesh ca.