KS3 Art Project book Year 9

Hundertwasser

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Frederich Hundertwasser

Friedrich Hundertwasser was born in 1928 in Vienna.He died in 2000 on his way from New Zealand to Europe on board the Queen Elizabeth 2.Hundertwasser was a Painter, architect, ecologist and visionary.Hundertwasser once said, “ Beauty is Panacea” - which means a remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties.

Hundertwasser liked dark, bright colours. What are your favourite colours?_____________________________________________________________________________

Hundertwasser noted that there are no straight lines in nature and many of his paintings depicted spirals which he saw everywhere.

List 3 things in nature which have spirals.

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Lollipop TreesHundertwasser often depicted trees like lollipops.Design a picture of trees in the style of Hundertwasser in the box below.

For Hundertwasser, humans have three skins.

Skin 1 The natural epidermis (skin) Skin 2 Clothes Skin 3 House

The First Skin.The body keeps everything together and is the part which everybody can see.All living creatures have a skin.The skin is suitable for the creature depending on how and where it lives.

Look at the pictures below. What type of skin does each have and why is it suitable?

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The Second Skin.Our Clothes.

Hundertwasser did not like how people all dressed the same . How fashion dictated what people wore and felt that each person should dress with an individual style.

Use your imagination. Put out of your mind todays fashion trends and design a new wardrobe for yourself.

Think about colours shapes and patterns that you like. Will you mix and match, bright or subdued.

The Third skin.Your Home

Hundertwasser considered the third skin to be our homes. The outer covering of our private living space.

He hated the straight lines and conformity of buildings and thought that the outside of our houses should represent the people living inside them.

Cure this sick block of flats.

Look at the shapes, patterns and colours of Hundertwasser’s buildings. Can you show nature in the building too? Draw and colour on top of the building.

WindowRight

People cannot all afford to build their own houses to their own specification. Or change a block of flats. Hundertwasser thought it was important though to show that unique people lived behind every window of a property, and demanded that everyone should have the right to design the area around their window themselves.

Design your own window. Paint it, grow flowers, put a frame around it , mosaic it, put chains on it, give it a hat and so on…..

Evaluation• Look back over your work- list 10

words that you think should be keywords for this project:

Make notes about what you like and dislike about Hundertwasser’s art work.