Artist of the month: Roberto
Matta
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Roberto Matta was born in Santiago, Chile in 1911.
He graduated in 1931 from the College of the Sacred
Heart and at the Catholic University with a degree
in architecture. In 1936 he went to Paris and found employment with famous Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier. During this period, he met many poets and other artists including Salvador Dali. In 1938, just before the outbreak of the second world war in Europe, Roberto Matta moved to New York where he joined the Surrealist Group and participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris. Roberto Matta parted from the Surrealist group and returned to Europe in 1948, (he was re-integrated in 1959) settling first in Rome and then in Paris, where today he is alive and well and making art. His works is exhibited in all major museums of modern art world-wide. |
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The combination of humour, drawing technique and a masters sense for colour has placed Roberto Matta among the words most acknowledged contemporary artist. The works of Roberto Matta can be described as surrealistic cartoon type drawings. In the early works the colours are lighter and the objects often poorly outlined. The random forms he saw emerging developed into human and mechanistic forms, sometimes defined and contained within geometric architectures. The illustrations were full of irony and often including erotic scenes. With time the figures became more clearly outlined and the colours more brighter and the background darker. In the latest works Roberto Matta again goes for less defined objects - some being romantic Ocean de la nature below. |
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