1) Title of Workshop: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition
2) Enrichment Area Fulfilled: Arts at Baruch
3) Date/Time Attended: Novemeber 3/ 1pm to 2pm
4) How did the workshops affect your perspective of the topic that was discussed?
Well, I’m not really an art person to begin with but this workshop made me appreciate art and made me realize that a picture really is worth a thousand words. A picture can show what the artist is thinking/feeling while he/she paints the painting.
5) How did the workshop take you out of your comfort zone?
It didn’t really bring me out of my comfort zone. I’m just exposed to something new, something I haven’t really took the time to see or appreciate.
6) Explain what the workshop was about and tell us why you specifically chose that workshop.
This workshop is about the paintings of Mercedes Matter. Most of her paintings are abstract and still life. It’s very colorful and most of them are fill with fruits and the shape triangle – which I find it weird because I see triangle in like EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HER PAINTING. Is triangle like her favorite shape or something? I chose this workshop because it was a requirement for freshmen seminar class. And again I’m not an art person so I don’t think I would ever go to a gallery ever again.
I was at the art gallery this Tuesday and it was a mes…. people had to wait more than 45 min in line and some of then who got in the lasts were out after 2:30 so they were late to their class….The gallery is amazing and the art that Baruch managed to gather is beautiful but I don’t think the students got to enjoy the experience….because of bead organization.