Kitsch painting is an international movement made up of classical painters, a result of a 24 September 1998 speech and philosophy given by the Norwegian figurative artist, Odd Nerdrum,[1] later clarified in his book On Kitsch[2] with Jan-Ove Tuv and others.[note 1] The movement incorporates the techniques of the Old Masters with narrative, romanticism, and emotionally charged imagery. The movement defines Kitsch as synonymous with the arts of ancient Rome or the techne of ancient Greece. Kitsch painters embrace kitsch as a positive term not in opposition to "art", but as its own independent superstructure. Kitsch painters assert that Kitsch is not an art movement, but a philosophical movement separate from art. The Kitsch movement has been considered an indirect criticism of the contemporary art world, but according to Nerdrum, this is not the expressed intention.[3][4][5]
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- ^ E.J. Pettinger [1] Archived April 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine "The Kitsch Campaign" [Boise Weekly], December 29, 2004.
- ^ Dag Solhjell and Odd Nerdrum [2] "On Kitsch" Kagge Publishing, August 2001.
- ^ Signy Norendal, "Interview with Robert Dale Williams" [Aktuell Kunst] September 5, 2007
- ^ Richard Scott [3] The Philosophy of Kitsch.
- ^ "Jan-Ove Tuv". Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2012. Retrieved February 12, 2012.