Artist: Roberto Matta
data: 1972
muzeu: Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, United States)
Tehnică: Etching
Roberto Matta was a Chilean artist widely known for his involvement with the second Surrealist generation of 1930s Paris. His drawings and paintings explore the relationship between psychological states of mind at the level of the individual and of society. In 1939, Matta arrived in New York and met the British engraver Stanley William Hayter, founder of the printmaking workshop Atelier 17. Hayter’s shop fostered a spirit of camaraderie and creative freedom that attracted many young artists and inspired them to embrace printmaking as a social and political tool. Matta’s engraving practice can be traced to this period, when he produced the
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