In a jaded art world, painter Odd Nerdrum still manages to divide people along passionate lines. He has always been seen as a convoluted kitschy throwback by the Scandinavian cognoscenti, themselves desperate to be taken seriously in all things modern and contemporary. Others see him as a superior manifestation of the anti-modern refusal to abandon realism and old master techniques. The joke was on both sides of the argument when, in the early 1980s, his anti-modern embracing of Rembrandt's figu...
In a jaded art world, painter Odd Nerdrum still manages to divide people along passionate lines. He has always been seen as a convoluted kitschy throwback by the Scandinavian cognoscenti, themselves desperate to be taken seriously in all things modern and contemporary. Others see him as a superior manifestation of the anti-modern refusal to abandon realism and old master techniques. The joke was on both sides of the argument when, in the early 1980s, his anti-modern embracing of Rembrandt's figu...
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