Tenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004

dc.contributor.advisorDreyer, Elfriedeen
dc.contributor.emailupetd@ais.up.ac.zaen
dc.contributor.postgraduateConradie, Johannes Hendriken
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-07T15:58:55Z
dc.date.available2008-09-12en
dc.date.available2013-09-07T15:58:55Z
dc.date.created2007-04-12en
dc.date.issued2008-09-12en
dc.date.submitted2007-11-19en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MA (Fine Arts))--University of Pretoria, 2008.en
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
dc.description.availabilityunrestricteden
dc.description.degreeMA
dc.description.departmentVisual Artsen
dc.identifier.citationConradie, 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>
dc.identifier.otherPretoriaen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11192007-170823/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/29578
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© University of Pretoren
dc.subjectSufferingen
dc.subjectSublimeen
dc.subjectExistentialismen
dc.subjectIsolationen
dc.subjectKitschen
dc.subjectLossen
dc.subjectPaintingen
dc.subjectRealismen
dc.subjectEmpathyen
dc.subjectEmotionen
dc.subjectDestructionen
dc.subjectAbsenceen
dc.subjectBeautyen
dc.subjectDeathen
dc.subjectDarknessen
dc.subjectAvant-gardeen
dc.subjectTranscendenceen
dc.subjectTenebrismen
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.titleTenebrism in the paiting of Odd Nerdrum from 1983 to 2004en
dc.typeDissertationen

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