In the 1980's I was alone as a Dutch artist in depicting naturalism, and figurative paintings. My subjects were mostly portraits of people and women, nude or
clothed. My art was influenced by surrealism and Giger, French comics (Druillet, Moebius), Willink, Symbolism and the PRB. I drew roses with stems and leafs,
withered and fallen on the ground. I made a portrait with real hair stuck to it. I worked feverishly.
I didn't know of other painters like me. In The Netherlands people like Mondriaan and De Kooning were worshipped and realism was 'something from the Nazi's'.
Nonsens of course, but the Dutch are quick to condemn everything they don't like, be it people, movements, art, cultures. They are inherent racist and
bigots.
After a couple of years of rejection at galeries, I destroyed most of my artworks - about 200 drawings and paintings. I burned them on a pile, and a lot got
stolen by people who liked drawings or paintings. I stopped making art for years, got addicted to heroin, speed, cocain and alcohol. In about 1995-1996 I
made a number of drawings, based on ufos and aliens. Only in 2010 I started to make a lot of art again.
It is offensive to my art, to see my principles and downright copies of my ideas portayed in Stuckism and similar movements. I am NOT a movement. I'm an
original artist, not a copyist. The art I see on the internet, for instance on Deviant Art (concept art = NOT art) looks like the stuff I made in te 1980's.
Others would be overjoyed, but not me. I'm broke, am to be kicked out of my house and forced to live on the streets, being a diabetic is almost impossible. I
have no job, being almost not able to walk due to to claudication - pain and cramps in my legs. In this dire situation, nobody is able to help me. I have no
friends (because of a social phobia), my mother has no more resources, my girlfriend is an ex now and is the one leaving me, so I'm stuck in a house I can't
pay for. I have no ID and can't get welfare, because I have no ID. And een if I got welfare, I ca't afford this house. I gave no money to move, and what
about my belongings? I'm very depressed and sick of life. The Netherlands is a cruel state. If I get no help, I will be dead in a few months.
So, I ask for help this way. I need money, I need a house with low rent, I need assistance. Who is able to help, who can help me?
I feel ashamed for this. Today is my birthday. My mother called me up, nobody else. My ex girlfriend, still living here, refuses to do anything festive. My
lovely son is with his mother in Greece somewhere, and she refuses to tell me where he is. I feel alone.
I need money to live, I need money to make art. Is there nobody out there who can finance a starving artist?
Thank you for reading.
Ivo Westerlaken, aka Robotklaw
clothed. My art was influenced by surrealism and Giger, French comics (Druillet, Moebius), Willink, Symbolism and the PRB. I drew roses with stems and leafs,
withered and fallen on the ground. I made a portrait with real hair stuck to it. I worked feverishly.
I didn't know of other painters like me. In The Netherlands people like Mondriaan and De Kooning were worshipped and realism was 'something from the Nazi's'.
Nonsens of course, but the Dutch are quick to condemn everything they don't like, be it people, movements, art, cultures. They are inherent racist and
bigots.
After a couple of years of rejection at galeries, I destroyed most of my artworks - about 200 drawings and paintings. I burned them on a pile, and a lot got
stolen by people who liked drawings or paintings. I stopped making art for years, got addicted to heroin, speed, cocain and alcohol. In about 1995-1996 I
made a number of drawings, based on ufos and aliens. Only in 2010 I started to make a lot of art again.
It is offensive to my art, to see my principles and downright copies of my ideas portayed in Stuckism and similar movements. I am NOT a movement. I'm an
original artist, not a copyist. The art I see on the internet, for instance on Deviant Art (concept art = NOT art) looks like the stuff I made in te 1980's.
Others would be overjoyed, but not me. I'm broke, am to be kicked out of my house and forced to live on the streets, being a diabetic is almost impossible. I
have no job, being almost not able to walk due to to claudication - pain and cramps in my legs. In this dire situation, nobody is able to help me. I have no
friends (because of a social phobia), my mother has no more resources, my girlfriend is an ex now and is the one leaving me, so I'm stuck in a house I can't
pay for. I have no ID and can't get welfare, because I have no ID. And een if I got welfare, I ca't afford this house. I gave no money to move, and what
about my belongings? I'm very depressed and sick of life. The Netherlands is a cruel state. If I get no help, I will be dead in a few months.
So, I ask for help this way. I need money, I need a house with low rent, I need assistance. Who is able to help, who can help me?
I feel ashamed for this. Today is my birthday. My mother called me up, nobody else. My ex girlfriend, still living here, refuses to do anything festive. My
lovely son is with his mother in Greece somewhere, and she refuses to tell me where he is. I feel alone.
I need money to live, I need money to make art. Is there nobody out there who can finance a starving artist?
Thank you for reading.
Ivo Westerlaken, aka Robotklaw
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