Mercedes Matter, Arts workshop

I came in Sydney Mishkin expecting to see portraits of cars and how it impacted the life of people but I then learned that Mercedes Matter was a name. Mercedes based her exhibit on tables and fruits with the major use of triangles. Some of these triangles were easy to find, others blended well with the scenery, I guess to show 2 or more dimensions within the picture. I learned that she enjoyed painting what she has seen while traveling rather than taking pictures of it. Pictures offer reality while paintings reaches out to its audienceĀ and give you thatĀ  feeling as if you were in that place. The colors would determine the importance of each element on the picture; for example-if the main object were the sailboats, it would be white or any other capturing color while the buildings from the nearby land would be gray, fading. Matter’s artwork costs thousands of dollars, the price increases the more she gets written about in NY times or Wall St. Journal. I dont enjoy abstract art but I did understand what she was trying to show in her paintings except one. I dont know the title but it had many random squares of different color, I tried and still trying to analyze what it portrays but the best I can come up with (which is probably way off) is that those huge squares were meant to be raindrops, they’re big and colorful which is ironic, but sometimes happiness can be experienced in the rain.

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