Modern Art Museum

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Modern Art Museum The knowledge I gained from this trip was extraordinary. I really enjoyed being able to see that hard work and dedication to art pays off in the end. There are only two artists that I would like to talk about. Each caught my eye, but in two very different ways. The more I read about Vernon Fisher the more I love him. Not necessarily for the type of art he does, but I have to give him credit or something he was born and raised in Texas! Fisher’s fascination with found objects, mixed media, and photography ties him to what is called conceptual art. The main constituent to conceptual art which is the making of an idea or intellectual concept the basis of content, is text. Infatuated with storytelling using slang and colloquial language, Fisher’s works became visual narratives. Ambiguous in meaning, his subject matter conveys a reflection of his childhood memories and his everyday cognizance. In the Modern Art museum of Ft. Worth, Vernon Fisher allows the audience to see works of his entire career to date. In this presentations he used anything from paintings to sculptures and of course installations from the late 1970’s to the present. These works are from public collection, but we are also treated with some pieces from his private collection as well. This man in his own creative way combines his textual images, abstract paintings and his black board paintings which have become quite the catch. Michael Aupin, the Modern’s chief curator says, “ The show is a revealing look at a body of work that represents an especially interesting moment in contemporary art history in the late 1970’s - a time when the legacies of Pop Art and Conceptual Art created a unique hybrid between painting and installation, inspiring narratives derived from juxtapositions of language and vernacular imagery. The subtitle “K-Mart” Conceptualism refers to Fishers’ interest
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