If you like excess..
you will like Hundertwasser. He was the May artist inspiration in this year’s calendar, shown above. There’s lots here, including some videos about our guy here and an original animation down at the bottom.
“The straight line is a crime.” - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-born, New Zealand artist and architect, 1928-2000.
If you enjoy drama and boldness and a space filled to the brim with eye candy,
you will like Hundertwasser.
Brilliant colors, wonky shapes, wavy lines, and loose geometry?
Oh boy, does Hundertwasser have that for you.
Love circles?
Like a touch of gold and silver in your art?
So did Hundertwasser!
If you love playfulness and imagination,
If you like to play with your markers and scissors,
and don’t know when to stop,
and don’t want to stop because it’s fun,
make a Hundertwasser.
Here are a couple of Hundertwasser-inspired pieces I created with shapes from my scrap drawer and blocks of color I made. I cut out the shapes and added them to some landscapes I had made with markers. I moved things around until I was satisfied, glued them down, and then added patterns and shapes with my markers, whoopee! I probably went a couple of dozen stripes too far, but WHAT DO I CARE!? It was fun. (I always told my students to know when to stop because they so often wanted to keep making marks, but secretly I did get it. Who wants to stop when it’s so much fun to draw and color? WHO, I ask you! WHO????)
i consider this one too busy for my own good but one of those times when I just couldn’t stop. okay, i don’t have his touch here, but i did have his fun.
You’ve probably got some time right now, yes? Go have some fun.
“I want to make lots of people happy, not depressed. I don’t want to burden them with more problems. ”
In these videos, you can especially see his sense of playfulness in his architecture. The video on the right sidebar shows “ten beautiful Hundertwasser buildings” but you may agree with me that many of his structures reflect the wonky side of him.
In his later years, he concentrated on architecture. You can often tell a Hundertwasser building easily!
More videos by art teachers Yellow Bobbypins Art Camp and Zart Art (the latter does a multi-part lesson with various media and techniques in the Hundertwasser theme. She builds her lessons in series around the masters: Klee, Kandinsky, VanGogh, Miro, and others. Oh, for an art teacher such as she when I was a 5th grader.)
This is a short animation I created for an online class, “Make it Move.” Unlike the digital animations I’ve done before with the Procreate app or Photoshop, this was made the old-fashioned way: a series of still photos organized in a row. Since I knew I would be sharing this artist with you shortly, I killed two birdies (gasp) with one stone.
No animals were actually harmed in this endeavor.