1945, Matta, Le Poète (Un poète de notre connaissance) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: This totemic figure drenched in blood is a truly arresting apparition.
Aged just 25, Roberto Matta met the Surrealists in 1937. Upon seeing some of his sketches, they immediately embraced him as one of their own. Against a wispy yellow background typical of this period, Matta represented a hybrid, hallucinatory figure. A revolver with a keyhole is pointed at the onlooker. This distinctly surrealist object unfailingly brings to mind the ultimate surrealist action as described in the Manifesto: shooting randomly into a crowd.
1945, Matta, Le Poète (Un poète de notre connaissance) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: This totemic figure drenched in blood is a truly arresting apparition.
Aged just 25, Roberto Matta met the Surrealists in 1937. Upon seeing some of his sketches, they immediately embraced him as one of their own. Against a wispy yellow background typical of this period, Matta represented a hybrid, hallucinatory figure. A revolver with a keyhole is pointed at the onlooker. This distinctly surrealist object unfailingly brings to mind the ultimate surrealist action as described in the Manifesto: shooting randomly into a crowd.