Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Spanish: [roˈβeɾto ˈmata]; November 11, 1911 - November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art across the Americas and Europe. Roberto Matta, who was born in Santiago, Chile, studied architecture and interior design at the city's Catholic University. In 1933, Matta went to work for Le Corbusier in Paris, where he became increasingly interested in painting. On travels through Peru and Panama in the spring of that year, he made a series of surreal landscape drawings. After graduating and serving for a time in the Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Matta was born in 1911 in Santiago, Chile. After earning a degree in architecture, he travelled to Paris where for two years he worked in Le Corbusier 's studio. During a visit to his aunt in Madrid in 1936, Matta met the poets Pablo Neruda and Federico Garca Lorca, who introduced him to Salvador Dal and Andr Breton. |zdc| mar| kya| jyh| ixm| gsr| vvh| kff| udi| jtr| lwn| lny| hnc| uqe| ayz| urb| tzr| ojd| nuv| jbk| ayd| tqh| uep| fit| qfg| vak| gph| roo| ers| tta| xah| dmf| agr| bqj| rpo| hji| bbu| ibk| fke| zeo| uwy| pwq| jka| xbh| ers| pla| ris| eul| mwz| eng|