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This past Tuesday, November 3 2009 from 12:45 – 1:15, I attended the Arts at Baruch workshop on Mercedes Matters’ A Retrospective Exhibition in the Sidney Miskin Gallery located on East 22^nd street. I along with fourteen other colleagues took a tour with Sandra Karskin, a friendly speaker that informed us about the artworks and how the artist’s personal preferences affect the way her artworks are being depicted. She first told us that students should consider entering the art field for business since art is quite big these days. Then she went on telling us about the artworks. Most of the artwork displayed are very colorful and abstract, viewers will need to look into the artwork to grasp the message of the work. Towards the late years of the artist, her artworks are less colorful and express some sort of despair. Overall, this workshop is very helpful and informing since I learned a lot more about abstract art and I will recommend this workshop to those that are interested in art.

I went to the Sidney Miskin Gallery located at Baruch’s Administrative Center to see an exhibit called “A Retrospective Exhibition” by Mercedes Matter from 12:45pm to 1:15pm on November 3. Our tour guide was Sandra Karskin who took us around the relatively small gallery. She gave us a brief background on the era of modern art and described how Matters was a modern painter. Matters started painting abstract art at a young age and continued painting until a very late age. We were shown her works of art starting from the paintings she did at her teens until her eighties. She used many different and bright colors in her paintings and our tour guide pointed out that most of her her art featured shapes and fruits of many kind. As she grew older, her paintings grew more abstract, we cannot make out the fruits and shapes as well as before, and her very late works was done in charcoal without any other colors other than black and white. I felt that this workshop took me out of my comfort zone because I had never been in an actual gallery before. It was very interesting and I learned a lot about Mercedes Matters, her works of art and how business and art are connected. I would recommend it to other students because it would be a good opportunity to learn about a subject that many are not exposed to often.

I attended the art workshop on Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition in the Sidney Mishkin Gallery on East 22^nd Street, on November 3, 2009, from 12:45PM to 1:15PM. We took a tour with Sandra Karskin who gave us information on Mercedes Matter on how she matured as an artist. The paintings were placed in chronological order to show us how this artist began as a young artist to a person who was able to create abstract art wonderfully.  It definitely amazed me that she was able to be a successful artist and continue art throughout her life. Our tour guide also told us that art is an important field in business. I would recommend this tour to everybody because it is a good experience to have some knowledge about art; especially in the business world because art is now involved with business. It is also a good idea to learn how to analyze abstract art and try to understand what the artist is trying to depict.