The title of the Art Museum of the Americas' latest exhibition, "Roberto Matta: An Architect of Surrealism," both informs and deceives. Taken literally, it works: Though a fact not widely recognized, ...

Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren, known as Matta, whose sometimes nightmarish, hallucinatory paintings made him a premier Surrealist and major artist of the mid-20th century, died Nov. 23 in ...

In the prevailing philosophy of the Orient, the immeasurable (i.e. that which cannot be named, described, or understood through any form of reason) is regarded as the primary reality. . . . To Western ...

“This is a man who never stopped laughing, who always spoke in riddles, who identified with the joker, and is Roberto Matta's 1982 "Architecture du temps (un point sait tout)." “This is a man who ...

Energetic and charismatic, Matta was able to translate European Surrealism to a generation of young American artists in a way that would galvanize them to experiment with its techniques. This ...

When Roberto Matta Echaurren arrived in New York City in November 1939, he was doubly in exile. He’d left South America for Paris four years before, at 24, determined to become an architect in the ...

Chilean artist Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren -- known for Surrealistic images of cosmic wonderlands and apocalyptic dreams, executed under the name of Matta -- died Saturday in Italy, at ...

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and AMA | Art Museum of the Americas announce the U.S. premiere of INTIMATTA, the new documentary film about acclaimed Chilean artist Roberto ...

Chilean painter and sculptor Roberto Matta, often described as ”the last of the Surrealists”, has died at age 91, the Italian press reported on Sunday. Matta, a driving force of abstract art, died ...

This portfolio of 10 etchings entitled "Une Saison en Enfer" (translated as A Season in Hell) based on the famous 1783 poem by the Symbolist writer Arthur Rimbaud. This hallucinatory work, written ...

Roberto Matta, the Chilean Surrealist painter who has died aged 91, is regarded in his native country as one of the great figures of 20th century art. Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren was ...