02 Paintings, The amorous game, Odd Nerdrum's Daddy's Girl, With Footnotes #80

Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian, b. 1944

Daddy's Girl, c. 2014

Oil on canvas

81 × 104 in, 205.7 × 264.2 cm

Private collection

In this 2014 oil painting Nerdrum returns to the beautiful nude couple of Summer Nights (see below). But now they are aged and decrepit, the woman lay dying across the lap of her grieving partner. Yet at their feet the infant still sleeps peacefully in it's manger, unchanged and now seemingly too young to even be the offspring of this couple. And the rifle? It's barrel peeks out from beneath the couple's makeshift bedding.

Odd Nerdrum

Summer Nights, c. 2001

71 1/2 x 75 1/2 inches

Oil on canvas

Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco

Odd Nerdrum (born 8 April 1944) is a Norwegian figurative painter, born in Sweden, and considered to be one of the greatest living classical figurative painters. His work is held by museums worldwide. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work reference anecdote and narrative. Primary influences by the painters Rembrandt and Caravaggio help place his work in direct conflict with the abstraction and conceptual art considered acceptable in much of Norway. 

Nerdrum was born in Helsingborg, Sweden, because his parents were resistance fighters who had fled German-occupied Norway during World War II. At the end of the war Nerdrum returned to Norway with his parents. Nerdrum was educated in a Rudolf Steiner school and later at the Art Academy of Oslo. Disillusioned with the art form taught at the academy and with modern art in general Nerdrum began to teach himself to paint in a post modern style with Rembrandt and Caravaggio as influences. In 1965, he began a several-months study with the German artist Joseph Beuys.

Nerdrum says that his art should be understood as kitsch rather than art as such. On Kitsch, a manifesto composed by Nerdrum, describes the distinction he makes between kitsch and art. Nerdrum's philosophy has spawned The Kitsch Movement among his students and followers, who call themselves kitsch painters rather than artists. More on Odd Nerdrum

The Kitsch Movement is an international movement of classical figurative painters, which define ‘kitsch’ on similar basis with Aristotle’s rationalized ‘Techne’.The movement was born in 1998, upon a new philosophical understanding of kitsch – announced by Odd Nerdrum at his retrospective show at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. Nerdrum decleared himself a kitsch-painter and later clearified the concept of kitsch in his book On Kitsch – written together with Jan-Ove Tuv and others. More on The Kitsch Movement

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