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Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004
Dissertation (MA (Fine Arts))--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/29578 Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 Dreyer, Elfriede upetd@ais.up.ac.za Conradie, Johannes Hendrik Suffering Sublime Existentialism Isolation Kitsch Loss Painting Realism Empathy Emotion Destruction Absence Beauty Death Darkness Avant-garde Transcendence Tenebrism UCTD Dissertation (MA (Fine Arts))--University of Pretoria, 2008. The hypothesis of this dissertation is that contemporary Norwegian painter, Odd Nerdrum (b 1944), uses tenebrism as a mode of beauty and a device to emphasise psychological states of being. Tenebrism is an effective kitsch device to create an impression of realism and so-called truthfulness while pointing to the deepest human sentiments and emotions. I argue that Nerdrum’s tenebrist art questions dark truths about modernity and its effect on the self. The darkness of his tenebrist style amplifies the emotional states of his human characters, and becomes a negative form of transcendence into absence and the power of its nothingness. Nerdrum’s paintings are a visual record of the human capacity to withstand selfdestruction and strive for restoration from the inane. His physical act of painting opens and refines consciousness by slowing down time, for insight and contemplation. Visual Arts MA unrestricted 2013-09-07T15:58:55Z 2008-09-12 2013-09-07T15:58:55Z 2007-04-12 2008-09-12 2007-11-19 Dissertation Conradie, JH 2008, Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29578> Pretoria http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29578 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11192007-170823/ © University of Pretor application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Suffering Sublime Existentialism Isolation Kitsch Loss Painting Realism Empathy Emotion Destruction Absence Beauty Death Darkness Avant-garde Transcendence Tenebrism UCTD Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 |
| title | Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 |
| title_full | Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 |
| title_fullStr | Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 |
| title_short | Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 |
| title_sort | tenebrism in the paiting of odd nerdrum from 1983 to 2004 |
| topic | Suffering Sublime Existentialism Isolation Kitsch Loss Painting Realism Empathy Emotion Destruction Absence Beauty Death Darkness Avant-garde Transcendence Tenebrism UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29578 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11192007-170823/ |