Colegio roberto matta biography

Matta (Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren), painter, muralist, printmaker, draughtsman and ceramist, was born in Santiago, Chile on November 11, 1911. His formal studies began in architecture, and he received his diploma in architectural studies in 1932 from La Universidad Catolica de Santiago in Chile.

This coincided with his apprecticeship under visiting Swiss-French architect La Corbusier, working on his proposal for the Ville Radieuse in 1930.

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His interests soon veered away from architecture and he began his artistic career as a draughtsman. On the advice of friend Andre Breton, he moved to Paris in 1933 and traveled throughout Europe between 1935 and 1937, meeting Federico Garcia Lorca who introduced him to Dali.

Thanks to Dali, Matta joined the Surrealist movement in 1937 and contributed to the their publications. He began painting in 1938 and that same year he participated in the Paris Exposicion International du Surrealism.

He was excluded from the Surrea