Strange Nightmare-on Contemporary Realist Painter The Odd·Nerdrum Art Of Painting

Contemporary Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum (hereinafter referred to as the Odd) wasborn in Switzerland in1944, growth in Oslo, Norway, until today. Odd own life experiencesinto his oil paintings, in a manner of self-disclosure reflects his life a certain period ofpsychological complex, his creative thinking by many philosophies, such as Goethe, Kant,Sigmund Freud, Sartre, Aristotle, early, so he works intensely philosophical color.Article on the Odd painting style development, the formation of a combination of hisrepresentative works to do a more comprehensive discussion, which summed up the Odd artfeatures the following aspects. First, Odd continuation of the the neoclassical masterCaravaggio bridge, Rembrandt painting techniques, continue to inherit and carry forwardthem this mainstream art of the secular spirit of resistance. Secondly, look at the world in avery unique vision of the prophet and traditional philosopher, a extremely subtle realist style,to express and death in the human world, a variety of emotions in the people’s spiritual world,including love and libido, lonely relationship between people and their desire to communicate,desire for caring. Odd into their understanding of these emotions manifested an allegoricalapproach. Odd early works are realistic critical works, with a very strong political flavor,depicting the vicissitudes of life in the marketplace. Revealed after the work is based on acompletely different surreal style, the implication of his work is obscure, and with a strongreligious flavor. The theme of the work has turned upside down, into the study of thephilosophy of the universe and the human spirit. Portrayed many characters from the couple,life slowly into a single character, the twin phenomenon, given inanimate objects to life;covers the whole process of human illness and death.Longitudinal his entire artistic career, he has remained true to the hearts of neoclassicalcomplex, neoclassical and their tireless efforts in the modern open up force a different sky.It can be said, Odd works with the techniques of classical realism; abstract, pessimistic,and the concept of narcissism; radical political thought; desperate anti-modernself-consciousness; moral of primitivism; a connotation of communication. It can be said thatthe Odd does not belong to any school of art, his style is realistic the contemporarypostmodernist painting is very far-reaching...