Roberto Matta

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Roberto Matta was a Chilean surrealist painter known for his large-scale, visionary abstractions that explored psychological and cosmic themes.

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instanceOf Chilean artist
human
painter
surrealist artist
awardReceived Praemium Imperiale
birthDate 1911-11-11
birthPlace Santiago
surface form: Santiago, Chile
burialPlace Tarquinia
surface form: Tarquinia, Italy
child Gordon Matta-Clark
countryOfCitizenship Chile
dateAwarded 1995
deathDate 2002-11-23
educatedAs architect
employer Le Corbusier
familyName Matta
field drawing
painting
fullName Roberto Matta self-linksurface differs
surface form: Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren
genre abstract painting
surrealist painting
givenName Roberto
hasRelative Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña
influenced Abstract expressionism
surface form: Abstract Expressionism

American abstract painters
Latin American modern art
influencedBy André Breton
European modernism
Surrealist automatism
languageOfWorkOrName French
Spanish
movement Abstract art
Surrealism
notableFor cosmic and metaphysical imagery
large-scale visionary abstractions
psychological themes in art
notableWork Invasion of the Night
Les Voix
The Disasters of Mysticism
signatureWorkCharacteristic interlacing organic forms
vast, nebulous spatial fields
spouse Anne Clark
style automatic drawing
biomorphic abstraction
theme cosmic space
inner psychological landscapes
political conflict
workedIn New York City
Paris
Rome

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Pierre Matisse representedArtist Roberto Matta
Surrealist Group in Paris hasMember Roberto Matta
Yves Tanguy influenced Roberto Matta
Roberto Matta fullName Roberto Matta self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren