I Want to See It to Believe It from Brunidor Portfolio, No. 1

Roberto Matta

1947

This lithograph by Roberto Matta collapses bodies, machines, and architectural fragments into a disorienting, dreamlike montage, testing how perception and belief hold together across fragmented space.

At a glance you notice a loose grid of pale blue panels pierced by quick, wiry ink lines that trace elongated, insectile figures and schematic mechanical parts drifting across tilted, maplike planes.

Matta transformed Surrealist automatism into an architectural and cosmic language, opening postwar art to explorations of spatial psychology and the movement between inner and outer worlds.

Palette

Art Terms

Lithography Print Surrealism Automatism Architectural fragment Biomorphic Montage

Exhibitions

Matta

1957

Latin-American Art, 1931–1966, from the Museum Collection

1967

Surrealist Illusion from the Museum Collection

1971

Master Prints from the Collection

1987