Word: matta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prophetic Approaches. In the long run, the other technique of "automatist" surrealism proved more revolutionary and durable. As practiced by Joan Miro, André Masson, Max Ernst and Roberto Matta, automatism relied on the unconscious to direct the pen, pencil, brush or tube of glue. "Rather than setting out to paint something," said Miró, "I begin, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself." Landscape with Rooster, one of a dozen outsize, uninhibited Mirós on display, illustrates the antic, fanciful contours that result...
Handsome Payoff. Since the present curator, William N. Eisendrath, 64, moved the collection into its zippy new $650,000 Steinberg Hall gallery in 1960, he has added still more modern paintings, including Sam Francis' flamboyant Arcueil and Roberto Matta's perkily prismatic Abstraction (see color opposite). There are also other, more familiar works, such as a Jackson Pollock that was bought in 1953 for $3,000 and is now insured...
...trundle on to Brattle St. with your paper sack of "spring" action clothespins, clipping them onto signs and children and Volkswagons and all and just when you're getting to like it the man comes up to you and says, "What's a matta kid? You some kind nut or somethun...
...lyrical vitality of his 1911-1914 pictures with the decorative boudoir puffs and frills of his post-World War II efforts. The world innovative center for Western art shifted in the 1940s to New York under the influence of noted refugee painters from Europe, such as Mondriaan, Leger and Matta...
MATT A-lolas, 15 East 55th. Chile-born, Paris-based Matta was a bright young acolyte in surrealism's heyday, but that label is too limiting for his talents. The variety of this excellent show proves that he is not to be confined by it. There are huge new spatial fireworks, exploding with the motion of the machine age, smaller works on the same theme, drawings and lithographs. But most interesting is a series of pastels that Matta calls Cabezas (portraits): four black, brutish simulations of heads that are magnificently ugly. Through...