Odd Odd Nerdrum

Big Red & Shiny #68 includes Victoria Z. Alexander’s thesis on Odd Nerdrum’s slow motion monstrosities:”Nerdrum has been received largely as an outcast in the official art world because his painting poses such a threat to it by evoking ideas that do not promote our culture or what the majority in the art world consider to be art. Nerdrum�s works do not possess a faith in humanism or ideologies of progress. This is not the art of enlightenment � it is an art of the inhuman � and the inhuman is something that occupies a far greater period of time in human history than does the human.” Read more.