Morphology 1937

This drawing is by Roberto Matta. It's called "Morphology" and it's made using colored pencil. You can see the push and pull, the trial and error, and the building up of marks. I can imagine Matta making this, just letting his mind go wherever. The colored pencil feels kind of hallucinatory somehow. It’s not like oil paint that you can push around, there’s a kind of directness to the medium. See how the colors overlap and blend, creating subtle shifts in tone and texture? It's not just about color, but about how the colors interact, and almost vibrate with each other. The colors create their own weird kind of space. It makes me think about other artists who worked in surrealism and abstraction. They’re all in conversation with each other, pushing the boundaries of what painting can be. Artists like Matta remind us that painting is not just about representation, but about exploration and invention. It’s about the joy of discovery, the thrill of experimentation, and the power of imagination.