Originally, a student of architecture, Roberto Sebastiano Antonio Matta was discovered by André Breton in and welcomed into the Surrealist movement. Shortly after, in, he immigrated to the United States as an unknown artist. However, this did not last long. In , in a solo exhibit held in Julien Levy Gallery he had an immense impact on American experimental artist. With American painter Robert Motherwell, Matta&#;s work helped fuse European Surrealism and the American movement to be identified as Abstract Expressionism. Within his exemplary piece of Disasters of Mysticism, he ventures into uncharted territory alluding to the ever-changing universe of outer space. He achieves this utilizing brilliant flame-light to the left of the work and the black depths of space to the right (Arnason & Mansfield ).
Breton writes in the journal “Minotaure” the text Des tendences des plus récentes du surrealisme, in which which presents Matta as one of Surrealism's most promising new recruits:
“One of our youngest friends, Matta Echaurren, has as of today in his hands the reins of a production extraordinary painting. In him there is no longer anything rational nothing that does not result from the will to deepen the faculty of divination through color, a faculty that belongs to him in an exceptional. The paintings painted by Matta from one year on are a feast in which every occasion is at play, a pearl that grows in an avalanche attracting to itself every physical and mental glow.”
Matta spends the summer of that year at the Chemillieu chateau rented by Gertrude Stein, André Breton, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Marcel Tean, Estéban Francés Tanguy and his wife Kay Sage. Returning to Paris, he lived for some time in La Roche-Guyon together with Pablo Neruda. Then on the advice of Marcel Duchamp, he embarks for New York on the same ship as Tanguy. In that city the two artists will both settle in the 'Village' not far from each other. Matta, one of the few Surrealists who speaks Engli
Summary of Roberto Matta
Chilean-born artist Roberto Matta was an international figure whose worldview represented a synthesis of European, American, and Latin American cultures. As a member of the Surrealist movement and an early mentor to several Abstract Expressionists, Matta broke with both groups to pursue a highly personal artistic vision. His mature work blended abstraction, figuration, and multi-dimensional spaces into complex, cosmic landscapes. Matta's long and prolific career was defined by a strong social conscience and an intense exploration of his internal and external worlds.
Accomplishments
- Matta broke with the conventions of the Surrealist movement by adding a dimension of social and political awareness to his work.
- Matta often supplemented an aesthetic of pure abstraction with elements of figuration and precisely rendered, though fantastically conceived, three-dimensional space.
- Matta's exploration of the unconscious mind through a symbolic language of abstract forms greatly influenced the early development Abstract Expressionism.
Important Art by Roberto Matta
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Cruxificion
Cruxificion marks not only Matta's first fora
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The Disasters of Mysticism es una obra realizada por Matta en en Nueva York, ciudad en la que residía desde Allí formó parte del nutrido grupo de artistas que habían huido de la guerra en Europa. Entre todos, se destacaba la presencia de los surrealistas, no solo porque allí estaba la plana mayor del movimiento (André Breton, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, André Masson y otros), sino porque el surrealismo era el movimiento más pujante y dinámico de las vanguardias europeas en el momento de comenzar la guerra.
Matta pinta The Disasters of Mysticism en un año par- ticularmente importante para los surrealistas. En marzo de , en la Pierre Matisse Gallery, se realiza la exposición Artists in Exile.1 En octubre se inaugura la exhibición que haría conocer el surrealismo en Nueva York, First Papers of Surrealism,2 en la Whitelaw Reid Mansion. En ambas está presente Matta. Además, también en marzo de ese año, el artista lleva a cabo una muestra individual, Matta: Paintings and Oil Pencils, en la Pierre Matisse Gallery. The Disasters of Mysticism, además, se ubica en un momento especialmente significativo tanto en la obra pictóric
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