On Thursday, November 17, I went to “A Retrospective Exhibition” by Mercedes Matter at the Sidney Miskin Gallery. When I got there at 12:40, a line was already starting to form. The gallery was small but was very organized and showed how the artist’s work changed as she grew older. Our tour guide was really nice and told us a lot of details on each painting. Our tour guide also told us how Mercedes started to paint at a very young age and used her own way of style to portray a sense of art. In Mercedes paintings, it consist a lot of lines, space, colors, textures, and shapes such as triangles, to create her painting. After the camera was created, Mercedes wanted to create something that can not be seen from these pictures. Mercedes creates her own reality by using visual ideas rather than painting a more realistic photo that is seen in a picture. She did not really care about details that much and just painted whatever image she imagines. The tour took about 15 minutes since there was a really long line of students. Within these 15 minutes I enjoyed looking at Mercedes’ style of painting, it showed how different artists pictures artwork and how each style is unique. It also helped me a lot in relating what I am learning in my art class and compare the differences of every artists that I had been seeing in museums.