Rutger van der TasRutger van der Tas

Title thesis:

Transition into timelessness
The struggle of three artists

Subject:
My thesis is about three artists who all have their own mental problems, Willem de Kooning had Alzheimer’s, William Utermohlen too, and Vincent van Gogh had a multitude of possible disorders. In my thesis I examine the period in which these disorders come to the surface through various symptoms, and how they effect the lives and works of these artists, up to the point that where they are no longer able to work or socially function.


Link to thesis (PDF)

The common thread in my work runs through mental instability along the advancing digitalisation of our humanbody into the anatomy of our existence.

Titel scriptie:

Overgang naar tijdloos zijn.
De worsteling van drie kunstenaars

Subject:
My thesis is about three artists who all have their own mental problems, Willem de Kooning had Alzheimer’s, William Utermohlen too, and Vincent van Gogh had a multitude of possible disorders. In my thesis I examine the period in which these disorders come to the surface through various symptoms, and how they effect the lives and works of these artists, up to the point that where they are no longer able to work or socially function.


Link naar scriptie (PDF)

The common thread in my work runs through mental instability along the advancing digitalisation of our humanbody into the anatomy of our existence.