MATTA, Roberto

In Paris in 1936, after working for two years at the architectural studio of Le Corbusier , Matta turned to painting and associated himself with the Surrealists. He quickly became one of the principal practitioners of automatism, painting spontaneously and in an improvisational manner, without the intercession of conscious control, directed by deep impulses so as to render visual metaphors for the reality of inner experience. He called his early paintings inscapes and psychological morphologies...