Roberto Matta

Roberto Matta, in full Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren, (born November 11, 1911, Santiago, Chile—died November 23, 2002, Civitavecchia, Italy), Chilean-born painter of mysterious fantastic environments who lived his adult life outside his homeland and became identified with the international Surrealist movement.

Matta completed an architecture degree at the Catholic University in Santiago (1931) and moved

to Paris in 1933 to work for the influential architect and city planner Le Corbusier. While working in the architect’s studio, Matta became increasingly interested in painting. Further, his friendships with the avant-garde in various centres of Europe—Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Walter

Gropius, Salvador Dalí, Federico Garcia Lorca, André Breton, and others—stimulated his interest in the Surrealist movement, and by 1936 he had abandoned architecture as a career.

罗伯托·马塔（Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren，1911 年 11 月 11 日出生于智利圣地亚哥，2002 年 11 月 23 日卒于意大利奇维塔韦基亚），智利出生的神秘奇幻环境画家，他在家乡以外的地方过着成年生活，被国际超现实主义运动所认同。
Matta 在圣地亚哥的天主教大学完成了建筑学学位（1931 年）并搬到了
1933 年前往巴黎为有影响力的建筑师和城市规划师勒·柯布西耶 (Le Corbusier) 工作。在建筑师工作室工作期间，马塔对绘画越来越感兴趣。此外，他与欧洲各个中心的前卫——格特鲁德·斯坦、马塞尔·杜尚、沃尔特
格罗皮乌斯、萨尔瓦多·达利、费德里科·加西亚·洛尔卡、安德烈·布雷顿等人激发了他对超现实主义运动的兴趣，到 1936 年，他放弃了建筑作为职业。