Tenebrism in the painting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983-2004
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dreyer, Elfriede | |
| dc.contributor.postgraduate | Conradie, Johan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-05T05:49:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-05T05:49:44Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2006 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.description | Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2006. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.availability | Unrestricted | en_ZA |
| dc.description.degree | MA | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Visual Arts | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Conradie, J 2006, Tenebrism in the painting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983-2004, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59656> | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59656 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | University of Pretoria | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | UCTD | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Tenebrism in the painting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983-2004 | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_ZA |