Odd Nerdrum
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Odd Nerdrum
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 "conflicted preoccupation with origins and personal identity" that his paintings express, and traces this preoccupation to his discovery that his father was not the father he had known growing up, but a previous lover of his mother's. Also abandoned by his mother at an early age, he recollects of his early years: "I was a beggar in a world ruled by others. The person I found in the mirror was myself, I saw myself reflected in my own eyes, not those of others." Nerdrum's difficult childhood and the isolation he has endured as a painter have greatly intensified the relevance of the self-portrait, a genre at which he has excelled, and for which he has become particularly well known. This volume collects Nerdum's self-portraits for the first time, with more than 100 color reproductions.
Odd Nerdrum, the Drawings
Author: Odd Nerdrum
language: en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date: 1994
Calling himself an "historical anarchist", Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum has rejected the modernist development in art of the past 100 years. Embracing the traditional values and techniques of the old masters, particularly Rembrandt and Caravaggio, Nerdrum creates a mythic Nordic world of barren landscapes populated with what appear to be lonely survivors of a lost civilization. His constant theme is that of estrangement -- of man from the world, from his fellows, from himself. Nerdrum repeatedly portrays a longing for reconciliation that can only be described as religious in intensity. A dual strangeness pervades these graphic works. Executed for the most part between 1985 and 1993, they reveal a desolate view of the human situation which the sumptuousness of their execution subtly contradicts. This coupling of a forlorn vision with a paradoxical faith in technical virtuosity and artistic tradition stems from his rejection of modernism, both as a style and as a progressive creed.
Odd Nerdrum Technique the Research Pages (the Revised Edition)
Author: Derek Van Derven
language: en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date: 2011-09-24
This is the final research findings of Odd Nerdrum's Technique as of September 2011 done by Derek Van Derven from the years 1997 to 2011. Images of Derek Van Derven's final and best paintings in the "Nerdrum Technique" are seen in this final edition of the book. Descriptions of how the paintings were done are included as well as photos of the final paintings at the end of the book. Learn the rare and amazing painting techniques of Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum, backed up by the testimony of his recent former students. Author Derek Van Derven has over 20 years of experience painting like the Old Masters, and over 12 years of experience researching Odd Nerdrum's techniques and copying his paintings. For more information about the contents of this book visit http: //oldmastercopies.com, also available at that website are videos demonstrating Odd Nerdrum's technique and Old Master drawing videos. If you like the book please leave positive feedback at Amazon's feedback area for this book.