Otto Torsten Andersson (6 June 1926 – 30 May 2009) was a Swedish modernist painter, best known for his theme of the realistic depiction of abstract sculptures, and two-dimensional exploration of three-dimensional objects,[1] where the colors seem to be superimposed on a random and perfunctory manner.
[2] Torsten Andersson was born in Östra Sallerup parish (now part of Hörby Municipality), in Skåne in 1926.
After practicing painting at Otte Sköld's Drawing School in Stockholm in 1945, Andersson attended classes at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1946–1950.
His own eccentric cross between melancholy nature painting and constructivism in the 1950s met very little critical understanding.
In 1966 I allowed one of these, the fictitious part, to represent the other, the concrete part, and so the divide in painting was healed in a way that involved the steadfast re-establishment of easel painting as an art form at the very time when this art form had begun to crack.
[5] Andersson remained an artist who studied and practiced experimental painting, conquering and creating his own language in the process.