A provocative and prolific painter, Odd Nerdrum employs old-world techniques and an ancient Greek palette to craft paintings that follow in the tradition of the masters Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Titian. Ever since his beginnings as a painter in the early sixties, Nerdrum has been a provocative voice[...]
Kitschbegrepet, som Odd Nerdrum lanserte for mer enn 10 år siden, er i dag i ferd med å bli et internasjonalt fenomen. Her får vi høre Nerdrum og hans likesinnede presentere kitschens historie og sette begrepet inn i en større kitschhistorisk tradisjon. Boken vil inneholde 150 kitschmalerier [...]
Den norske konstnären Odd Nerdrum är omstridd. Med ett såväl beträffande teknik som motivval traditionsbaserat måleri har han väckt vrede inom ett modernistiskt etablissemang men också vunnit gunst hos en talrik publik och bland penningstarka köpare. I Självporträtt dokumenteras en vikt[...]
For a painter who took his earliest bearings from Rembrandt, and who has defiantly espoused the values of old master painting, the self-portrait is a natural enough genre to pursue. For Odd Nerdrum, the attractions of self-portraiture run much deeper, however. Nerdum has frequently alluded to the "c[...]
Odd Nerdrum - Making Painting Great Again is a richly illustrated book with texts by philosopher Carl Wegner Korsnes and the artist Odd Nerdrum himself."Painting as a discipline is ruined; It's time to make painting great again." Thus sounds the masterful painter's philosophy, and these are his appe[...]