Odd Nerdrum
Last night I met Marcy. She’s an art student who likes figurative painting, without all the "conceptual bullshit." (her words)
I asked her what painters excited her, and she came back with someone I’d never heard of: Odd Nerdrum. Aside from having the most fugawesome name on record, this Norwegian paints good. Like, old masters good. The intellectual underpinnings of his work are pretty interesting too. He demands to be referred to as a practitioner of KITSCH, because art is the elitist playground of the untalented. Check it out, the rants at the bottom are a gas. Anyone who reads Juxtapoz is probably on this guy’s tip. Or anyone who rabidly favors facility over, well, conceptual bullshit.
After our conversation I just got up and left. My game is unstoppable.
