Self Portraits at TRAUMA at Science Gallery Dublin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2016
- SELF-PORTRAITS - WILLIAM UTERMOHLEN (US)
William Utermohlen’s ‘Self’, a self-portrait, drawn in 1967, sees the artist with hunched shoulders, a receding hairline, and a delicate neck that speak of premature ageing and a sense of vulnerability. William was diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in 1995. He returned to the self-portrait for his last body of work - Self-Portraits - drawn over a period of five years as his illness progressed.
‘Self’ is accompanied by three portraits from this period. In ‘Self-Portrait (Red)’, drawn in 1996, the front part of the skull - the source of William’s illness - is sharply outlined in red and green. Sadness, anxiety, resignation, and the feeling of feebleness are all apparent in the asymmetrical features of ‘Self-Portrait (Green)’ drawn in 1997. William expresses his emotions with remarkable precision using a new style of rough brushwork and bold drawing.
‘Head I’ is one of the last, drawn in 2000. A deepening crack runs through the centre of the face in this haunting sketch. The staring eyes are now like empty dark cavities, fixed onto a head turning into a skull.
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TRAUMA: BUILT TO BREAK is a free exhibition at the boundary of rupture and recovery.
Would you choose to erase a traumatic memory? Why are some people more resilient to trauma than others? How do we live with and recover from trauma? And how do we experience other people’s trauma?
TRAUMA investigates biological, psychological, societal, and cultural traumas in our contemporary, connected world - from the emotional, neurological and mental aspects of trauma to the brutish, the blunt-force, the fractured and the stitched. Exploring our collective resilience in the face of trauma, exhibits consider our ability to heal and the importance of communication and human connections to that process.
TRAUMA runs 20.11.15 - 21.02.16 at Science Gallery at Trinity College
Find out more at dublin.sciencegallery.com/trauma. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
It took another SEVEN YEARS after the last drawing. Oh my god, that must have been hell...
If I ever get Alzheimer's, I'll tell them to shoot me once I start constantly failing to recognize close family members. My grandfather's going through it now and I know that's what he would have wanted for himself. He doesn't deserve to "live" like that anymore. The only person he recognizes is his wife, about half of the time. He can't even talk to her.
There were actually one or two more portraits and the last one is even more terrifying than the last one shown here.
@@droptherapy2085 Where can someone find these?
@@jceess so sorry to hear that , and also is your grandfather doing alright ?
@@KougarManx468 he passed away with his wife and daughter at his side. He would have been sooo mad that we let him "live" like that for so long but he's not suffering anymore.
Off topic but damn that first one is great use of pencils
The last one likewise I love art drawn using pencils
Not sure I would describe his artistic ability as declining as every stage is very expressive and fascinating. The first work is actually the most pedestrian while the later works are very interesting technically and as art.
No, its decline. Literal brain decline. Its loosing the ability to recognize yourself in a mirror. I'm not afraid to die, thats natural, I am afraid of dementia and alzheimers though. I've seen family go through it. Its hell. The torture he must have been going through is unthinkable. Nobody can ever understand it, not even if you have it because then you don't even understand yourself anymore.
@@TheMilkMan8008 a fair amount of the patients I work with are those with dementia. Truly a horrifying disease. Especially if I’m working with them, as that implies some serious behavioral disturbance. I truly hope in time more of the west will bring about the right to die act, if a cure or treatment is not found.
@@haloskaterkid death with dignity is all anyone can ask for. So I hope it becomes more common everywhere too.
@@TheMilkMan8008 it's a combination of both. It's a mental decline not matched by a motor one. His mind and recognition slipped while his muscle memory stubbornly persisted.
What we see was him applying, or *trying* to apply advanced techniques which you can very vaguely see in his final pieces, things that he knew by instinct and repetitions, but could not fully realize. Probably because of an attention deficit, and that the cognitive decline was just too great to comprehend just what he was trying to draw. But to me, that's worse.
I always found this kind of stuff interesting from an artist's perspective.
Such an interesting commentary! All of the artwork so beautiful perhaps the last the most touching of all! Thank you so much for drawing attention to this man's life and art.
Thanks!
The artist's struggle with illness is laced with horrible elevator music in the background. Are we discussing art and dementia, or are we going up one level to the women's department?
Incredible
reminds me of that thalasin comercial
:(
This is like Bryan charnleys last self portraits
Dementia be like
People stop repeating the same shit that "it mus be like hell" If you are loosing your memory you probably do not realize. Stop repeating what media an other people repeat. Don't be so selfish and tabloid. Use your own logic.
The art shows that it is not something you fail to realize, and as someone who has worked very closely with Alzheimer patients I can tell you that many of them have expressed a similar feeling" dread, fear, depression in their moments of lucidity.
Everyone I know who has Alzheimer’s knows they have it or feels fear. It makes your emotions all over the place in the later stages which must be like hell. You don’t be so selfish and do some research.
im late lol. but it is so clearly you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. please educate yourself :)
you 100% use reddit lmao