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I attended this workshop last tuesday (11/3/09) in the Mishkim art gallery. The workshop consisted of an art exhibit with pieces painted by Mercedes Matters. The tour was great and i’m really glad we had someone there to explain a few things about each painting. I learned some new things about art paintings, specially, abstract art. Overall, i found the art exhibit interesting and educational.

Tuesday I attended Mercedes Matters Art Gallery at Mishkin. I really enjoyed the tour of her art but the wait was much too long, almost an hour waiting.  Anyways upon entering  I thought the gallery would be a lot bigger but it was still really interesting and greatly designed. I noticed that Mercedes Matters loved to portray still-art in her paintings. She also happened to have this strange obsession with triangles since they were always visible in her works. I wonder why. Possibly because the triangle is considered to be the shape of divinity or maybe she just likes them a lot because itssimply her favorite shape lol. For the most part i really took a liking to the gallery and wish there were many more pieces of art on exibit.

On November 3rd, I went to the Mishkin Art Gallery where the work of Mercedes Matter was on display. There was a quick, 20 minute tour of Matter’s work from when she was a teenager to just before she died.  The tour guide  said that having knowledge of arts and culture  is beneficial in the business world and she tried explaining how to look abstract art. Most of the art just looked like random shapes and paint splatters, but the colors were really beautiful. Matter used triangular shapes for stability and tried to portray feelings in her works, rather than actual objects. I had never been to an art gallery, so it was a new and different experience for me.

The Mercedes Matter gallery exhibition took place on November 3, 2009, at the Sidney Mishkin building on 135 East 22nd street. This workshop was a brief gallery tour of Mercedes Matter’s art works, from her early compositions to her later works in life. Mercedes Matter used a lot of abstract shapes in her art, which made it hard to comprehend what she was trying to portray. She used also used triangular shapes in most of her artworks .As I went through the gallery, the curator pointed out the bright colors, lines, and shapes which Mercedes used in order to create the abstract still life paintings.  The gallery had a pleasant mood to it. Even though it was rather small, it still felt like walking into a section of a museum.  The gallery tour was a decent experience once inside. However, the downside  was waiting for forty minutes for a twenty minute tour.

So on Tuesday i went to the Mercedes Matters Art Gallery held at Mishkin. I thought the gallery was really good. I felt though that i definitely would of enjoyed it more if the line wasn’t so long. I waited for at least 40 minutes before I could get in to see the gallery. 40 minutes of being squished next to other people made me very irritated haha. The Gallery itself was interesting. Mercedes Matters seemed to like Still-Art Paintings, in fact most of her art work was still art. She also loved to use the triangle in her art. A lot of her artwork used triangles to create the design. Overall, I felt that the gallery was an interesting place to be and i wish i was able to enjoy it more.

I went to this workshop expecting it to be a big area of showcasing, it ended up being kind of small for an art gallery and the tour only took around 20 people at a time so it was really packed by the time i got in. I learned that mercedes draws a lot of table tops and fruits and has a thing for triangle shapes. I also learned that art is used in the business world as a way to decorate the enterprise. This kind of gave me a thought of a business with a huge entrance with a huge foyer type scene and the biggest painting i have ever seen right smack in the middle above the reception desk. Maybe im not for art but i couldnt tell what most of the paintings had on the tables at all, interesting workshop overall.