Odd Nerdrum Norwegian Painter

Singers

Dust Lickers

Odd Nerdrum (b.1944) is a Norwegian figurative painter.
Nerdrum creates 6-8 paintings per year that have been categorized as: Still life paintings of small objects like bricks, portraits and self portraits whose subjects are dressed as if from some other time and place, and large paintings, allegorical in nature that present a sense of the apocalyptic, and again reference another time.
Nerdrum claims 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.

the artist's site

Dawn

Loving Couple

Dying Couple

Self Portrait in Profile

The Kiss

Early Morning

Baby

5 Singing Women

5 Singing Women (detail)

Three Men

Unarmed Man

Twins by the Sea

Five Persons Around a Water Hole

Turid Spildo

Hepatitis

Man Bitten by Snake

Hermaphrodite

Head

Woamn in a Boat

Pissing Woman

Sleeping Prophet