Andrés Mata
Encyclopedia
Andrés Mata was a Venezuela
n poet, writer and journalist.
trend, who did not resign to Romanticism
completely. Andrés Mata and Andres Vigas founded the newspaper El Universal
on 1 April 1909.
Andrés Mata died in Paris, France, in 1931.
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n poet, writer and journalist.
Life
Andrés Mata was born in Carúpano, Venezuela, in 1870. He is considered a poet of modernistModernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
trend, who did not resign to Romanticism
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
completely. Andrés Mata and Andres Vigas founded the newspaper El Universal
El Universal (Caracas)
El Universal is a major Venezuelan newspaper, headquartered in Caracas with an average daily circulation of about 150,000. The online version carries news, politics, sports, economy and more....
on 1 April 1909.
Andrés Mata died in Paris, France, in 1931.
Notable works
- Pentélicas (1896)
- Idilio Trágico (1898, English: Tragic Love Affair)
- Arias Sentimentales (1898, English: Sentimental Arias)
Trivia
- His grandson, Andrés Mata Osorio, is the current publisher of El Universal.
- Fundación Andrés Mata is a Venezuelan foundation belonging to the El Universal that is named after Andrés Mata.