Mercedes Matter, Untitled (Main Landscape), c. 1957, oil on board, 16 × 20 in., Estate of Mercedes Matter, courtesy of Berry Campbell Gallery, New York.
“A young person studying art today steps into a particularly confusing situation,” wrote Mercedes Matter in 1963. “The extraordinary kaleidoscope of events of the twentieth century, of movements following so closely one upon another, of extremes absurd and great, of ideas canceling each other out and recurrent Dada and anti-art, all this breaks at his feet in waves of cynicism. . . . He is very easily infected with . . .
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