Odd Nerdrum: Meeting the master - in St. Petersburg 

100 years from now this man will be in the history books and kids will be studying his technique and life

"I could do it better" lol! I love his audacity

What a pleasure to go with the master on a tour like this!

at 22:19 he says : " I've always had this interest that, if I get impressed by something, I want to do the same." .... I think this is a very common feeling ( and a valuable one) but many artists now are afraid to follow through.

Wow, this is Odd Nerdrum! I have his book but I’ve never seen him in video. A man as elegant and powerful as his paintings!

I'm a poet and I sometimes become jealous of painters. I tried to paint, but it was hopeless. But I love being a poet more than I could ever love painting. Odd Nerdrum is my favorite living painter. But it's conceivable that I haven't witnessed all the paintings in the contemporary world. I couldn't tell the Rembrandt was ruined.

Tusen hjertelig takk for at dere deler denne dokumentaren. Veldig fint å kunne få denne muligheten til litt innsikt.

Thank you for making this video. I hope you guys are blessed in your life. Thanks....

The «bad restoration» part is powerful, Odd tells it like it is when it comes to art, he does not bow down to museum bureaucrats! His eye is wiser and sharper than theirs. He is fearless when he sees something ugly. The knowledge this painter has is a lexicon. He has a natural arrogance, but it comes from a deep love of classical art. He is like a hawk with a paintbrush in his grip.

Muchas gracias, sobre todo muy ilustrativo, necesitamos más documentos como este.

Odd Nerdrum is quite right in every aspect regarding how art develops ones-self.

I loved this documentary. Finally an artist that raises the bar.

Beautiful thanx for sharing!

Beautifully made film about a fascinating & intelligent artist. Thank you...

Love this blokes paintings

His coat is magnificent. Of course.

Super

Thanksss for eng subsss

I would like to buy one of your paintings someday.

He is morethan Rembrand and any artist in the world that i ever seen, he is genius artist

Love this, but any hope for english subtitles?

: ) xoxo I know I love that old work too. 2022 .. have to totally think outside of that world . Make new world ° K

If you know someone has a blindspot--and everyone does--ask him what he's looking at when you happen to see him looking contemplatively. He will tell you what he can see. Then get him to describe it. Then ask him why he likes it. He will tell you what he thinks beauty is. Try this sometime.

REMBRANDT ...ich liebe seine Werke ganz besonders.

The man believes he can restore that painting better and get it done in one week. Nothing wrong with that. If he really can do it better and only within one week, then that is a wonderful gift that shouldn't be rejected.

LOL that lady was so annoyed by Nerdrum. Did she know who that was at the moment?

16:00 you thought a Repin painting was disgusting..? I'm glad you changed your mind

I do not accept that he is any kind of master at painting. But I do accept that he has a huge ego and believes his own myth. Great art is always a pleasure to see. His paintings are simply unpleasant reminders of a disturbed personality. This is not just a subjective opinion.

20:35

this man is really genius

I Russland bare topp restaurering...

As artists we have absolutely no bearing or influence on the world anymore. Art no longer changes anything. My own genre, poetry, has been this way for at least 30 years, after the death of Anne Sexton. The only thing we can do is unite. Do you read Atsuro Riley or Mark Strand? None of my friends have ever heard of Odd Nerdrum, except than I mentioned him. Some of them are poets. It is as if each genre ignores the others. Has a painter ever read a favorite work and painted the images he saw in his mind's eye? I can only think of one poet who paints. His name is Jonathan Rice. I don't like his paintings. Of course, no one has ever done both. That's not the point though. There is no effort for dialogue between the arts, that I can see.

Lady: you think you can do better? It took twelve years. Nerdrum: yes. In a week. Boss level 1000 😂

Really very much appreciated his comments in modern art; such a waste of talent, and artistically probably reflect class differences.

this guys huffing gas

What an incredible moment where the world's greatest living classical painter offers restoration, only to be met with the ego of an assistant. I bet she'll feel embarrassed one day

and I looked......said. Ok. New recipe ...I see one. New then. I wash over . One color or ... Color over painting on phone in black and white. You see. Very good. So clean so pure. So feeling .. fresh. Love. So beautiful..... Like best very hard Realistic. Washington Brand New green and gray . Something I put togetherness. Just decided good idea. Good sale style to work. To sell . Unique. Document.. to me like. Very . Long complicated process .... Man and woman artist so very hard. Not just female or man both .. to make art so great xo I am very thoughtful....I know ° K

LEARN I INVESTED IN SUPER PERMANENT COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES. PRODUCTS STYLES BRANDS. BUT I GET SAD. LOOKING. CRY. BECAUSE HERE ITS LIKE NOT EVEN SOMETHING.. LIKE IT'S WTF R U DOING????? THAT SHIT ALREADY SOLD WTF R U THINKING.. HA ∆K

BUT still I said....I can resell ...... You sell . I can re sell odd.... I am working on a wash... On phone. Paint. I'll ..I said. No. No ....no ....I'll HMMMM sketch shades paint one. One......one. One. One color wash. Washington Brand. Own. Toss into pile. Owner. Fast yes ° K

a man that writes a book on contemporary representational art called "Kitsch", claims he can do a better job at restoring a Rembrandt (3:20) that should only take him a week to do is without doubt an egocentric head case. by self-deprecating his rep art as kitsch he is merely displaying ego and arrogance. but the proof is in the pudding, i compared his stuff side-by-side to rembrandt and comparatively they are pure s**t, no "master" here but a clever marketing whiz.

this guy is overrated. I think people are starting to catch on. No humility. A bunch of other "trying way to hard to be different artists" practically follow this guy around and throw rose pedals at his feet. His technique is nothing new, nothing revolutionary. He's just trying to be different and you all have been fooled. My name is Devin Roberts, I dont give a shit if this pisses him off, ODD NERDRUM IF YOU DIDN'T ACT LIKE YOU ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD, i might consider you to be a great painter, but when you act like your shit is holy it makes you nothing in my mind. How rude of you to treat this lady that way, if I was there I would have put you in your place.