Originally, a student of architecture, Roberto Sebastiano Antonio Matta was discovered by André Breton in 1937 and welcomed into the Surrealist movement. Shortly after, in1939, he immigrated to the United States as an unknown artist. However, this did not last long. In 1940, in a solo exhibit held in Julien Levy Gallery he had an immense impact on American experimental artist. With American painter Robert Motherwell, Matta’s work helped fuse European Surrealism and the American movement to be identified as Abstract Expressionism. Within his exemplary piece of 1942 Disasters of Mysticism, he ventures into uncharted territory alluding to the ever-changing universe of outer space. He achieves this utilizing brilliant flame-light to the left of the work and the black depths of space to the right (Arnason & Mansfield 2010.).
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