I must be maturing. Seeing his work for years, I did not understand Morandi at first, or at least accept that I didn't understand him. The apparent simplicity of his work made me think I understood it at once, and that there wasn't much to understand. Now I think he was doing one of the hardest and most profound things in 'art'.
Conrad Vogel grew up in Briarcliff Manor, New York, graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1977, traveled in Italy, and then moved to New York City where he lived as an artist for more than forty years.
I must be maturing. Seeing his work for years, I did not understand Morandi at first, or at least accept that I didn't understand him. The apparent simplicity of his work made me think I understood it at once, and that there wasn't much to understand. Now I think he was doing one of the hardest and most profound things in 'art'.
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