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Invasion of the Night, oil on canvas, 1941, SFMOMA.
Invasion of the Night, oil on canvas, 1941, SFMOMA.

Roberto Antonio Sebastián Matta Echaurren (November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), usually known as Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century art. Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Born in Santiago, he initially studied architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, but became disillusioned with this occupation and left for Paris in 1933. Santiago ( (litteraly in spanish Saint James) is the Capital of Chile, and the center of its largest Conurbation ( Greater Santiago The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC formerly PUC (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is one of Chile 's oldest universities and one of the most prestigious His travels led him to meet artists such as René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, André Breton, and Le Corbusier. René François Ghislain Magritte ( 21 November 1898 - 15 August 1967) was a Belgian Surrealist artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11 1904 &ndash January 23 1989 was a Spanish Catalan Surrealist André Breton (in French ɑ̃dʀe bʀəˈtɔ̃ ( February 19, 1896 &ndash September 28, 1966) was a French Writer, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier ( October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965) was a Swiss

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. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members Matta produced illustrations and articles for Surrealist journals such as Minotaure. Minotaure (1933 to 1939 was a primarily Surrealist -oriented publication founded by Albert Skira in Paris During this period he was introduced to the work of many prominent contemporary European artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (October 25 1881 &ndash April 8 1973 Marcel Duchamp (maʀsɛl dyˈʃɑ̃ (28 July 1887 &ndash 2 October 1968 was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist

The first true flowering of Matta's own art came in 1938, when he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he is best known. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This period coincided with his emigration to the United States, where he lived until 1948. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. His early paintings, such as Invasion of the Night, give 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". Inscape, in Visual art, is a term especially associated with certain works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta, but it is also used in other senses within Prof. Claude Cernuschi (see Boston College Matta exhibition external link below) writes that "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'. For similarly-named academic institutions see Education in Boston MA. Inscape, in Visual art, is a term especially associated with certain works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta, but it is also used in other senses within " According to the essay on Matta in Crosscurrents of Modernism (see references below), the inscapes' evocative forms "are visual analogies for the artist's psyche" (p. 241). During the 1940s and 1950s, the disturbing state of world politics found reflection in Matta's work, with the canvases becoming busy with images of electrical machinery and distressed figures. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions The addition of clay to Matta's paintings in the early 1960s lent an added dimension to the distortions.

In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms (see biomorphism). Biomorphism is an art movement that began in the 20th century He was one of the first artists to take this abstract leap.

Elle Loge La Folie, oil on canvas, 1970.
Elle Loge La Folie, oil on canvas, 1970.

Matta's connections with Breton's Surrealist movement were severed when a private disagreement led to his expulsion from the group, but by this time his own name was becoming widely known. He divided his life between Europe and South America during the 1950s and 1960s, successfully combining the political and the semi-abstract in epic surreal canvases. Matta believed that art and poetry can change the lives of people, and was very involved in the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He was a strong supporter of the socialist government of president Salvador Allende in Chile. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (June 26 1908 – September 11 1973 was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the coup d'état of

Throughout his life, Matta worked with many different types of media, including ceramic, photography and video production. [1]

Matta died in Civitavecchia, Italy, on 23 November 2002. Civitavecchia is a town and Comune of the Province of Rome in the central Italian region of Latium. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Events 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Matta is the father of the artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Gordon Matta-Clark ( June 22 1943 – August 27 1978) was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the


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Selected list of works

Redness of Lead, 1943.
Redness of Lead, 1943.
Psychological Morphology, ca. 1938.
Psychological Morphology, ca. 1938.
Le Dauphin de la Memoire, 1984.
Le Dauphin de la Memoire, 1984.
A Grave Situation, 1946.
A Grave Situation, 1946.
La Source du Calme, 2002. This was Matta's final work.
La Source du Calme, 2002. This was Matta's final work.

(The works of Roberto Matta are copyrighted in the U. S. until at least 2072)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Système 88". VVV was a journal devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism, published in New York City from 1942 through 1944. The Dakin Building is an architectural award winning class A office building on the San Francisco Bay in Brisbane California. Inscape, in Visual art, is a term especially associated with certain works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta, but it is also used in other senses within

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Inscape, in Visual art, is a term especially associated with certain works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta, but it is also used in other senses within
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