Barbara van der Kruk was born in Nieuwer Amstel (near Amsterdam). After highschool she was admitted to the Rietveldacademie in Amsterdam to study arts. Despite this fact she decided to study English language and literature at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In this period she took art classes with J. Ploos van Amstel. Inspired by his classes, she quit her study of English, and resumed her study in arts (VLVU, arts and textiles) After graduation she became an art director for several leading international advertising agencies. (Saatchi & Saatchi, DDB, Young & Rubicam) During this period she kept on painting. Her passion for painting is still a prominent part of her life.

About the Philosophical paintings. The uniform individual.

Based on books written by Wilhelm Schmid Author of The Philosophy of the Art of Life.

We ourselves have become the weakest link in our society. We seem to have lost ourselves; our very self in our so-called advanced and liberated societies. The modern individual might perceive himself as self-conceived and self-conscious, he has nevertheless become fragile and lost sight of himself by being torn apart in boundlessness. Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH

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• Lives In:    Netherlands
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