1. You will develop your observational drawing skills and use
your imagination to design your own buildings and create
work that is inspired by Hundertwasser’s artistic and
ecological ideology.
During this project you will investigate the work of
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, one of the most important
architects of the 20th
century. You will also research
Transautomatism, a style of painting created by
Hundertwasser.
You will develop your understanding of colour, mark making and
explore painting, printing and collage in the development of your
work.
SoW: Friedensreich Hundertwasser
2. Lesson 1
Learning Objective:
Develop an understanding of the Artist and Architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Learning Outcome:
Apply this knowledge to a drawing in response to Hundertwasser’s ideas.
3. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
• Hundertwasser was born in 1928 in Vienna,
Austria and died in 2000.
• He was a painter, architect, ecologist and
visionary.
• Hundertwasser once said, ‘Beauty is
Panacea’.
What is a PANACEA?
What do you think he meant?
4. Hundertwasser thought about all sorts of things.
For him painting was like dreaming.
He believed that painters take us
with them into their own world.
He thought about how
people might look after their
environment
5. He thought about how people might live…
…in harmony with nature.
Hundertwasser believed that people
are not happy when they have lost
their connection to nature.
He thought that people should be able
to enjoy nature even if they live in a
city.
6. Hundertwasser thought
that a happy place should
glow with bright colours.
He believed that everyone
should live like kings in a
fairytale castle.
7. Remember this:
Hundertwasser once said, ‘Beauty is
Panacea’.
How does this relate to his work?
What was he trying to ‘cure’ and how
was he attempting to do this?
8. Cure the sick block of flats.
Look at the shapes, patterns and colours in
Hundertwasser’s buildings. Can you show nature in
the building too? Draw and colour on top of the
building.
12. Not everyone can afford to build their own house
to their own specification.
Hundertwasser thought it was still important 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.
Window Rights
13. Claim the rights for these
windows. Decorate the area
around each one differently.
What happens when the
different designs meet? Treat
this text box and the image
below as more windows.
To print
14. Lesson 2
Learning Objective:
Develop an understanding of the colour wheel and learn specific vocabulary related
to colour theory.
Learning Outcome:
Create a colour wheel that shows an understanding of primary, secondary and
complementary colours.
24. Tertiary Colours
These colours are made by mixing a Primary Colour
with a Secondary Colour. Can you name them?
Yellow / Orange Red / Orange Blue / Green
Yellow/ Green Red / Violet Blue Violet
25. Tertiary Colours
Paint the tertiary
colours onto your plate
or circle of paper.
Make sure they are in
the right place.
26. Complementary and Harmonious colours
Complementary (contrasting colours sit opposite
each other on the colour wheel).Analogous or Harmonius colour relationships.
27. Which of these pairs of colours are harmonious and which pairs are complementary
pairs (sit opposite each other on the colour wheel)?
29. Extension Task
Hue, Tints, Tones and Shades
Hue: Colour
Tints are created when you add white to any
hue on the colour wheel. This will lighten and
desaturate the hue, making it less intense.
Tones are created when you add both black
and white to a hue. You could also say grey has
been added.
Shades are created when only black is added
to a hue. This results in a rich, often more
intense and darker colour.
Warm and Cool Colours
30. Lesson 3
Learning Objective:
Develop an understanding of Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s concept about the five
skins.
Use knowledge of colour theory to create paintings that demonstrate
complementary and harmonious relationships.
Learning Outcome:
Painted spirals that show a control of colour mixing and application of the paint.
31. The Five Skins
Like the layers of an onion we are
made up from many parts that
create the whole. Hundertwasser
believed that without each layer we
are not whole.
Hundertwasser addressed ecology
decades before it arrived as a mass
movement. He respected the dignity
and well-being of the individual and
understood that joyful self-
expression is the gateway into
happiness.
He explored the sensitivity of each
“skin” and artistically unfolded the
richness of each layer in his life and
work.
32. The First Skin: The Natural Epidermis / Skin
• The skin contains our inner truth.
• 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?
33. The Second Skin: Clothes
Hundertwasser’s self
made Winter and
Summer shoes.
Hundertwasser calls for us to renounce consumer society, to turn away from
the dictates of fashion and from the unifying anonymity and uniformity of ready-
made-clothing. He calls for the creativity of each individual and for the right to
a creative design of our second skin.
34. The Third Skin: House
Hundertwasser considered the third skin to be our homes. The outer covering of
our private living space. In answer to functional architecture with its geometrical
straight lines and sterile grid system, which hurt nature and man, Hundertwasser
offers a more human architecture in harmony with nature.
He hated the straight lines and conformity of buildings and thought that the outside
of our houses should represent the people living inside them.
‘When you build a house, you must start with
the windows, for they are the bridge
between inside and outside. Just as the first
skin is penetrated by pores, the third is by
windows. The eyes are the equivalent of
35. Spirals
Hundertwasser noticed that there are no straight lines in nature and many of his
painting included spirals which he saw everywhere.
Think of three spirals that occur in nature…. Can you think of a spiral in that is in
or on the body?
Hundertwasser said: Our earth describes a spiral course. We move in circles, but
we never come back to the same point. The circle is not closed. We only pass
the same neighbourhood many times.
36. What vegetable was the idea of the five skins likened to?
Why?
Circles are also a feature of Hundertwasser’s paintings.
Circles
37. Painting experiments
Choose pairs of colours.
Carefully paint spirals combining these two colours.
Experiment with painting on wet paper, thick paint, watered down paint,
combinations of these etc…
Draw back into dry spirals with oil pastels.
38. Lesson 4
Learning Objective:
Discover new ways to apply paint and create different effects.
Use knowledge of colour theory to create paintings that demonstrate
complementary and harmonious relationships.
Learning Outcome:
Painting experiments that show a control of colour mixing, mark making and
application of the paint.
39. Explore these different painting techniques.
Experiment with different colour combinations
Sgraffito (from
Italian "graffiare")
means to scratch
into the paint to
reveal areas of the
surface
underneath.
Scumbling is a
painting technique
for dry brushing a
layer of broken
colour over
another colour.
Don’t forget to label your experiments and explain the process….
Stippling is a
technique when
the brush is used
end on.
40. Create papers to use in a collage
Think carefully about colour combinations and aim to demonstrate the
techniques you have learnt so far.
41. Lesson 5
Learning Objective:
Develop understanding of composition and balancing colour and texture.
Learning Outcome:
Collage in response to Hundertwasser’s work demonstrating the different painting
techniques and colour studies completed so far.
42. Hundertwasser often depicted trees like lollipops
Collage
Use the images of trees to plan a composition that will fill the A3 sheet.
44. Carefully cut up your painted papers to
build up your image of trees.
Prepare the background first.
Consider shapes within shapes.
Editor's Notes
Panacea- means a remedy for all diseases, evils or difficulties.
The vocab for creating artwork.
Maybe illustrate on the board- draw….
Worth asking them to say which primary colours on their palette are the best examples of the primary colours. Ideally they should mix cadmium red and crimson, cadmium yellow and lemon yellow and cobalt blue and ultramarine in equal amounts.
