arts at Baruch: Retrospective exhibition

I guess we are all going to say the samething about the Mercedes Matter retrospective exhibition, I must admit at the beginning I was not looking forward to it, I thought it was going to boring, but it was actually the complete opposite. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I take art history now, but I enjoyed the exhibit and the fact that it showed a range of her body of work. It was interesting to see that she started at such a young age and her exhibits ends when she is in her old age. Her works go from defined to very abstract, where you have to kind of struggle to depict the different images that construct the painting as a whole.  Its like an illusion to your eyes, and because her works range through her life you can kind of understand each milestone in her life, such as when her husband passed away and he paintings became even more abstract and somewhat chaotic with dark lines and rough strokes. Some works were created with just charcoal to canvas. Overall I feel the exhibit is worth seeing, if it were not for freshman seminar I probably would not have went to see it, but I guess that is the whole point to force us to do something we dont want to do, but in the end appreciate it, because I just broadened my knowledge a little bit more, plus it makes me realize that not all art is not boring, the modern and avant garde stuff is defintely more interesting, because there are no rules, just expression.