The tour at Mercedes Matter was very interesting and informative. The tour guide showed us around a set of paintings made by an artist that was part of a large movement in the 1900’s. The artist was a modernist but more specifically part of the expressionism movement. This movement was created to express feelings felt by the artist through a series of different shapes and colors but her paintings were very abstract in that the title tells you there is an item present but it is very hard to see it because she painted it to be the way she saw it instead of the way most common people would interpret it. It did inform me a lot about art and how artists can depict different types of emotions through the use of shape, lines and color. This tour really let me in on the art world and taught me a lot about how art can portray messages with in it’s content to get a even larger message across.