Word: matta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down most language barriers (see listings for the Danes and Japanese below}. Any notion that the Latin Americans have failed to get the message is dispelled by this roundup of 17 accomplished painters from eight countries, among them Rufino Tamayo of Mexico, Alejandro Obregón of Colombia, Matta of Chile. Alejandro Otero of Venezuela and Wifredo Lam of Cuba. Through March...
...work was at first strongly influenced by Cézanne. Then the Dada revolution and the surrealists came across the Atlantic. In what turned out, as Biographer Ethel Schwabacher shows, to be a search for an expression of his own, Gorky borrowed from Picasso, Miró and Matta. He went from figurative to abstract and then added surrealism. Sometimes he built up his paint until his canvas seemed like sculptured relief. Sometimes he kept the paint thin as film and his canvas almost devoid of color...
...tiny Nude Seated on a Rock -curves of pink flesh set against a sapphire sky-gleams like a piece of jewelry. There are lonely street scenes by the Russian-born American, Eugene Berman, a moving little Fisherwoman by Berman's equally romantic brother Leonid. In the fiery Matta canvases colors explode and splash, while the unearthly landscapes by the late Ives Tanguy. who was one of Soby's closest friends, are strewn with strange shapes, which led Tanguy to call one painting The Furniture of Time. The collection has a dung-colored landscape by Jean Dubuffet ("the strongest...
Accompanied by his chic French wife Christiana, Matta set up housekeeping in a native hut. A slight (barely 100 Ibs.) man with bristling black hair and piercing eyes, he had a strange way with the wild animals-antelopes, buffaloes, lions, elephants-that were his charges, walked fearlessly among the wildest and greatest beasts. He always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam...
...Master's Voice. In awe, the surrounding Lobi tribesmen referred to him as "Kongo Massa," or "Master of the Bush." But the Lobi men are hunters, and Matta's hippos and antelopes meant meat to them. Skins could be sold to white trophy hunters, and tribal Africans pay high prices for elephants' sexual organs for use in fertility rites. Matta had only nine men to protect an area twice the size of Long Island. He begged the chiefs to restrain the poachers. That failing, he appealed to his own French superiors in Abidjan for more money...