World Wide Kitsch is a community for painters and sculptors that pursue classical figuration in their work. The purpose of this page is to share and enlighten people about KITSCH and its philosophy - based on what has been said and written on the subject through time.
A wonderful conversation about a painting that uses everyday language and ideas to describe it. The passion is authentic, unpretentious and relatable. This is the kind of conversation that gets people into art.
Capolavoro tra i tanti che il cinema sovietico ci ha dato, grandi attori, fotografia eccezionale, costumi bellissimi, grande regista e colonna sonora bella da far venire i brividi
I dislike this kind of art, with every fiber of my being. Nonetheless, students should have the opportunity to study art using the paths of the old masters. However, when artists pompously denigrate and talk down to artists who choose not to follow the traditional path, it makes me extremely angry.
I went to art school briefly. I remember asking a teacher how to stretch a large canvas. He replied; 'How do you _feel_ as though you want to do it?' After a couple more inane responses like that, I left, and taught myself by copying. I had a 50 yr successful career, but none of my friends who stayed at art school ever did, interestingly.
It’d be useful to reference other figurative painting movements/artists like Magritte and Balthus and Kehinde Wiley and Jeff Koon’s kitsch irony. Also as timeless or “outside of time” as Nerdrum’s work is, there are definite Symbolist and Surrealist aspects to his works.
I was a kid when I saw this film first time in Russia and this scene haunted me for many years. Another scene I couldn't forget was when Boris played piano when the bombs were hitting the building.
Thank you for asking these questions. Will there be any more TRAC events upcoming? I'm asking from the year 2023. Haha. I would love to travel to the next one.
If I were in her place I’d take a photo of the crime scene in the studio, maybe even paint running blood steams from the opening in the canvas. Create a story, put that other teacher in the spotlight as a suspect. Display the painting and the scissors as an installation. Maybe even add another layer and create an opportunity for a dialogue with the viewer. Oh my, I remember I was a pain in the neck for my university professors. It was a love hate relationship for sure, but 20 years after we’re on good terms and have fond memories of the past. It wasn’t boring 😂
South African Journal of Art History: The In-group and out- group dynamics of Odd Nerdrum positioning of Kitsch as a reflection of Situateness in Contemporary Art - by Willem Venter, 2018 Kitsch Movement = Social Identity Theory (social identity theory, in social psychology, the study of the interplay between personal and social identities. Social identity theory aims to specify and predict the circumstances under which individuals think of themselves as individuals or as group members. The theory also considers the consequences of personal and social identities for individual perceptions and group behaviour. - Britannica) Jacques Ranciere - Resistance to Oppression - Dissensus - heirarchy in politics of art and aesthetics. - distribution of the senses - the police (the critics, teachers, artists, dealers who deem themselves in the know) Clement Greenberg - 1939 Essay - Avant-Garde and Kitsch Kitsch - term first used in 1860s by artists and art dealers in Munich. Not of good quality, poor taste, aesthetic judgement and moral character of artist Marion & Lloyd - bad art is not the only criteria for Kitsch Modernist Perspective 11:00 Characterised by ideas of Utopianism, Linear Progress, Grand Narratives, Reason, Functionalism, and Formal Purism Modernism left behind figurative depiction in art, and with it the artistcally uninformed viewer Post Modernist Art 13:00 Kjellman- Chapin - Garden Gnomes and Snow Globes Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, 1878 - overly sentimental pictures, ambiguousness of the name kitsch. Meta-Modernism = beyond modernist and post modernist thought Kitsch needs to be re-evaluated specifically as something within itself, as opposed to being defined by what it is not. - marginalizing representational art as "the other" Modernism - What art is and what the purpose of art is - different criteria 15:00 Repositioning Kitsch: Nerdrum & kitsch movement - Figurative Baroque style - does not attempt to innovate High Kitsch vs. Low Kitsch 18:00 22:27 Artwork created in Modernist time certain practices or actions within society are set as 'Norm' by what Ranciere calls "the police". In time, these Norms become so intrenched that they become "the rule". Let us consider a possibe application of these ideas by Ranciere. Allow me to link Modernist thought to the phrase "the distribution of the sensible", we can easily see how certain beliefs regarding the creation of art within the modernist paradigm have become so institutionalized that they have developed from being "the norm" to being "the rule". "The police" could then be argued to be the art critics, art curators, art teachers, artists and other so called knowledgeable experts who place avant-garde art not only at the center of art creation, but also at the hierarchical top dismissing and marginalising that which does not follow the ideas of "the sensible". Ranciere explains: that in a situation where illegitimate power used to marginalize those who do not fit "the norm" a resistance will form out of this marginalized group. This resistance occurs when the police is opposed by politics, specifically in the arch which questions the distribution of the sensible, a process that leads to the re-distribution of the sensible. This resistance and consequent redistribution of the sensible Ranciere calls "The Census", he argues that will "the census" - which delivers a redistribution of the sensible - can only take place through art that forms part of the aesthetic regime as defined and taught by himself" The predominance of Modernist ideas towering over Traditional Representational art has repeatedly been lamented and not only defined as unjust but also unsustainable. If the contemporary arts sphere is "the police" unjustly propagating modernist ideas as the "distribution of the sensible", then "the Census", according to Ranciere needs to take place. This "the census" driven by politics, should then question and oppose the police's "distribution of the sensible" in such a way tgat a redistribution of the sensible is brought about. 24:30 Nerdrum's manifesto on Kitsch art
He who broke it bought it. That is the most disgusting thing you can do to an artist. Whatever that person sews they shall also reap. That is a law. Yes no person should touch art that doesn't belong to them. I'm so sorry that happened to you. Good for you repairing and finishing your work. They say that if a painting makes you feel something it is great art. That person really felt something deeply. Take it as a compliment. Maybe they were jealous.
I clicked on this in preference above other videos because I thought the guy in the thumbnail might be the one who modeled for Ivan the Terrible in that painting 😂😮
deceiving! Does not adhere to Aristotle ¨Poetics¨ ¨either by art or faculty ¨ . But nevertheless, this quasi sectarian Questionaire has its merits as long as we detach from the source. Be honest and you will OnLY get Odd as an accomplished visual voice predicating here. Zilch of Odds Students has managed to equal Odd. The students of Odd must be very sloppy copyists ?! But Odd, is himself an eccentric - there's nothing(!) of Titian, zero Rennaisance or Baroque or Roccoco and only Rembrandt as technical guide which only technically and ¨simply¨ is appropriated but not assimilated. Odd is quite good, but none of his pupils are! That Odd sect has a lot to say which I deem worthy and fun to think about, but if there's a pupil of Odd's and some Kantian Renegade, I would say... either, or. Besides, nothing points to Odd - along the lines of these 12 Questions - being anything other then a Kantian.
my self-expression is that noone should express themselves. michaelangelo never expressed any sort of individuality whatsoever at all in any form. neither did raphael or titian or el greco or rembrandt or velasquez or goya or ingres or david or bougeareau. a 30 min lecture that went about as deep as a single sheet of blank paper. the ultimate form of non-expression. i will now never express myself but i will only express the self of others.
