Monday 25 June 2007

Roberto Matta - Chilean Surrealist

When i lived in Chile for 4 months i went to one of Santiago's art galleries. Roberto Matta's work immediatly appealled to me. This painting i remeber clearly and two years on i can still distinguish it from all the others that he created.

The painting as i remember it is huge and quite dauting. It took a a lot longer than a glance to take in the beautiful details and interesting psychology behind it.

It is only now that i have researched him for this blog that i have realsied quite how famous he was. He met and was influenced by renowned surrealist artists such as Rene Margritte, Salvidor Dali and architect and theorist Le Corbusier.

This is not by any means his most famous piece of work but it is the one that struck me the most. It has an unusual lack of colour for a surrealist/abstract painting, yet managed in my eye to stand out from anything else in the gallery.

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