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Hello! My name is Jan-Ove Tuv, and I studied with Odd Nerdrum (1996-2002).
Since then I have taught painting courses for 15 years, giving me insight into
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gives you insight into key terms that will help any classical painter, such as:
• Reaching an Unfinished Totality in the beginning
• Establishing an Anchor Point before proceeding
• The Importance of The Middle Tone
• Awareness and exploitation of Simultaneous Contrast
• Why you should always remember Value Hierarchy
• The importance of Shadow to create movement, volume and drama
• The foundational importance of the Contour line
• Using Sandpaper as painting technique
• Awareness of the supremacy of Storytelling and Eternal Motifs
• How to paint The Way Our Eyes See the World
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Bio Jan-Ove Tuv
I studied with Odd Nerdrum 1996-2002.
For the last 11 years I have been teaching painting courses, online since 2016.
I have written about kitsch in the following books:
• On Kitsch (2000)
• Kitsch - More Than Art (2011)
• The Nerdrum School (2014)
Together with Øde Nerdrum, I co-hosted the six-part documentary series The Hunt of Odd Nerdrum.
I am also the host of the podcast/YouTube show The Cave of Apelles.
WHAT KITSCH IS:
According to Hans Reimann, the concept of "kitsch" came into being in mid-1800s Munich ateliers. Its purpose was to attack ”the previous culture,” making room for modern art. Historically, the term is linked with the birth of the system of the fine arts 100 years earlier.
While the latter praises aesthetical indifference, ”kitsch” encompasses sentimental and narrative paintings, literature and music. Kitsch motifs typically deal with the unchanging experiences of human life.
According to Tomas Kulka, these motifs could even be futher analyzed "in terms of Jungian archetypes". Odd Nerdrum has always identified with these values. In the manner of classical kitsch criticism, he has thus been reproached for his concern with past masters and sentimental, pathos-filled images.
Reading Hermann Broch´s essays on kitsch represented an immediate identification on the part of Nerdrum. In 1999, he inserted three articles (as ads) in ArtNews. Together with other authors, he published the books On Kitsch (2000) and Kitsch - More than Art (2011).
To Nerdrum and many others, the concept of kitsch represents a new superstructure for sincere and narrative figurative painting.