You will develop your observational drawing skills and use your imagination to design your own buildings and create work that is inspired by Hundertwassers 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

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 Hundertwassers ideas.

Friedensreich HundertwasserHundertwasser 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?

Panacea- means a remedy for all diseases, evils or difficulties.*

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

He thought about how people might livein 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.

Hundertwasser thought that a happy place should glow with bright colours. He believed that everyone should live like kings in a fairytale castle.

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?

Cure the sick block of flats.Look at the shapes, patterns and colours in Hundertwassers buildings. Can you show nature in the building too? Draw and colour on top of the building.

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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

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

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.

Formal ElementsLineShapeFormToneTexturePatternColour

The vocab for creating artwork.Maybe illustrate on the board- draw.*

STEP 1

Cut out the colour wheel insert and stick it into the centre of your paper plate or circle of paper.

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Primary ColoursThese colours cannot be made by mixing any other colours. Can you name them?

Primary ColoursThese colours cannot be made by mixing any other colours. Can you name them?

RedYellowBlue

Primary ColoursPaint the primary colours onto your plate or circle of paper.

Make sure they are in the right place.

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. *

Secondary ColoursThese colours are made by mixing pairs of Primary Colours. Can you name them?

Secondary ColoursThese colours are made by mixing pairs of Primary Colours. Can you name them?

OrangeGreenPurple

Secondary ColoursPaint the secondary colours onto your plate or circle of paper.

Make sure they are in the right place.

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Tertiary ColoursThese colours are made by mixing a Primary Colour with a Secondary Colour. Can you name them?

Tertiary ColoursThese colours are made by mixing a Primary Colour with a Secondary Colour. Can you name them?

Yellow / OrangeRed / OrangeBlue / Green

Yellow/ GreenRed / VioletBlue Violet

Tertiary ColoursPaint the tertiary colours onto your plate or circle of paper.

Make sure they are in the right place.

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Complementary and Harmonious coloursComplementary (contrasting colours sit opposite each other on the colour wheel).Analogous or Harmonius colour relationships.

Which of these pairs of colours are harmonious and which pairs are complementary pairs (sit opposite each other on the colour wheel)?

oppositeoppositeharmoniousharmoniousoppositeharmoniousharmoniousoppositeoppositeoppositeharmoniousharmonious

Extension TaskHue, 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

Lesson 3

Learning Objective:Discover new ways to apply paint and create different effects.

Learning Outcome:Painting experiments that show a control of colour mixing, mark making and application of the paint.

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.

Dont forget to label your experiments and explain the process. Stippling is a technique when the brush is used end on.

Lessons 4-6

Learning Objective:Develop an understanding of Friedensreich Hundertwassers concept about the five skins.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.

The Five SkinsLike 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.

He explored the sensitivity of each skin and artistically unfolded the richness of each layer in his life and work.

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?

The Second Skin: ClothesHundertwassers 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.

The Third Skin: HouseHundertwasser 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.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 windows.

The Fourth Skin: Identity (Hundertwasser says...)In 1972 Hundertwasser came to a turning-point in his career. He became much more sensitive to the social environment and to the identity problems linked to a group, community or nation.As Austrian Jews, many relatives from Hundertwassers mothers family were deported and executed in the Nazi concentration camps, with the remainder of the family having to go into hiding.

What could Hundertwassers art and Fantastic architecture be an expression of?

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The Fourth Skin: Identity (Hundertwasser says...)In 1972 Hundertwasser came to a turning-point in his career. He became much more sensitive to the social environment and to the identity problems linked to a group, community or nation.As Austrian Jews, many relatives from Hundertwassers mothers family were deported and executed in the Nazi concentration camps, with the remainder of the family having to go into hiding. Hundertwassers art and Fantastic architecture could be an expression of freedom against artistic, political and social standardisation the type he and his family, and Austria and Germany as a whole, experienced during Nazi occupation.

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The Fifth Skin: EarthSince Hundertwassers earliest childhood he had displayed a hypersensitivity to his surroundings. He believed that nature is the supreme reality, the source of universal harmony; his immense respect for nature very soon aroused in him the desire to protect it against the attacks made on it by man and industry.

Hundertwasser is naturally green, just as he is naturally a painter, Austrian, cosmopolitan or pacifist. Since his earliest childhood he had displayed a hypersensitivity to his surroundings. Nature is the supreme reality, the source of universal harmony; his immense respect for nature very soon aroused in him the desire to protect it against the attacks made on it by man and industry.*

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.

What vegetable was the idea of the five skins likened to? Why?Circles are also a feature of Hundertwassers paintings.Circles

Hundertwasser often depicted trees like lollipopsCollageUse the images of trees to plan a composition that will fill the A3 sheet.Use harmonious and complementary pairs, spirals and circles within circles to paint the composition.

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Lesson 7

Learning Objective:Develop understanding of cycles in nature and recycling to help preserve the environment.Investigate the designs and inventions that Hundertwasser and other architects create to make the way we live more ecological.

Learning Outcome:Apply this knowledge to your own ecological designs in response to Hundertwassers ideas.

In nature there are many sorts of cycles.

Can you name a cycle that occurs in nature?A cycle is something which always comes back to the beginning again.Cycle and Recycle

In nature there are many sorts of cycles.

Can you name a cycle that occurs in nature?A cycle is something which always comes back to the beginning again.Cycle and RecyclePhotosynthesisWater cycleAgriculturalAstronomyLife cycle of humans, plants and animalsFood chainSeasonalGeophysicalEnergy

When vegetation falls to the ground it rots, decomposes and becomes earth once more.If the vegetation doesnt get to fall to the ground because you have eaten it (eg. an apple)- what happens then?

A pile of poo, of course!

Hundertwasser believed that just as apples and leaves can become humus so can our poo. Humus is a special sort of earth which is rich in nutrients. We form part of the cycle of nature if our poo is allowed to be transformed into humus. But it doesnt work if we flush it down the loo. We interrupt the cycle, we are no longer part of nature.

Hundertwasser created a toilet to recycle poo and solve this problem. He said:

I built it to show how you can turn your poo into gold, to make me pleased and to see that it really works- that way, I can sleep more peacefully at night.

The dirty water must flow through the root portion of the plants and through the colonies of decomposing bacteria; in this way it is purified naturally. The dirt is converted in part to vegetable matter and in part to mineral sediment.

What would you include in an ecological building design?WATCH THIS- Earthships- ecological designMake a list of all the ideas in the clip.

What would you do in order to create an ecological building?Power generation- solar power, wind power.Water harvesting.Sewage containment and treatment.Controlling temperature without using any fuel.In-home food production.Building materials- recycled materials.

What could you add to your building drawn from your imagination? Experiment with ideas in your sketchbook.

Design HomeworkRedesign the building drawn from your imagination (previous homework).Include your ideas to make it more ecological. Adapt your drawing so that it resembles a Hundertwasser pieces of architecture.

Remember to consider:

Power generation- solar power, wind power.Water harvesting.Sewage containment and treatment.Controlling temperature without using any fuel.In-home food production.Building materials- recycled materials.

Grade 2: Line drawing of your design annotated with ideas how you might make it more ecological. Grade 3: In addition to the requirements for Level 4 your design will be in colour and include detail, pattern and textures that resemble Hundertwassers work.Grade 4: In addition to all the requirements above, your drawing will show different views or detailed diagrams of your green designs.Grade 5: In addition to all the requirements above, you will include research into how your ideas will save energy. Design HomeworkRedesign the building drawn from your imagination (previous homework).Include your ideas to make it more ecological. Adapt your drawing so that it resembles a Hundertwasser pieces of architecture.

Remember to consider:

Power generation- solar power, wind power.Water harvesting.Sewage containment and treatment.Controlling temperature without using any fuel.In-home food production.Building materials- recycled materials.

Grade 2: Line drawing of your design annotated with ideas how you might make it more ecological. Grade 3: In addition to the requirements for Level 4 your design will be in colour and include detail, pattern and textures that resemble Hundertwassers work.Grade 4: In addition to all the requirements above, your drawing will show different views or detailed diagrams of your green designs.Grade 5: In addition to all the requirements above, you will include research into how your ideas will save energy.

Lesson 8

Learning Objective:Develop skills in working collaboratively.Synthesise understanding from previous lessons.

Learning Outcome:Collaborate with a partner and design a building that is ecological AND reflects the style of Hundertwasser.

In pairs, design a Hundertwasser inspired building that saves energy and resources or benefits the environment in some way.

Print and enlarge to A3

Names:What design elements are you taking from each student?:

How do the designs reflect Hundertwassers style?:

Which ecological inventions will you use?:

Experiment with combining some of your designs below.

Once you are happy draw the complete building here

Lesson 9 & 10

Learning Objective:Develop understanding of how to translate a two dimensional design into three dimensions.Investigate how to simplify a free design into geometric forms using net shapes.Build on negotiation skills within partnership.

Learning Outcome:Create net shapes / use found materials for the different parts of the building.

"DIE HOELZERSIEBEN is an architecture game, building blocks for adults who still can and still want to dream and for children who have not yet had their creativity taken away from them."Hundertwasser, November, 1999

Net ShapesHundertwasser used simple geometric shapes covered with his distinctive patterns to create the forms in the game.

These are over complicated but you can see how the basic shapes accumulate to create something more complex.

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Cuboid 1

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Triangular Prism

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TetrahedronCone

CylinderTo print

Square based pyramid

Click here for more complex shapes

Lesson 11-13

Learning Objective:Apply knowledge of Hundertwassers style to sketchbook designs and develop patterns for the separate shapes.Continue to build negotiation skills within partnership.

Learning Outcome:Decorate the net shapes as per Hundertwassers style.Show a clear understanding of colour mixing, colour relationships (complementary / harmonious) and mark making.

Hundertwassers designs for DIE HOELZERSIEBEN

In your pairs, list at least three features of Hundertwassers style.

Designs should have already been worked out during the initial building design homework. Use these and examples of his work to cover your building. Make sure you are in agreement with you partner.

Think carefully about your colour combinations when you design your patterns.Complementary or Analogous (contrasting colours sit opposite each other on the colour wheel).Harmonious colour relationships.COLOUR RECAP

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. *. *

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*Hundertwasser is naturally green, just as he is naturally a painter, Austrian, cosmopolitan or pacifist. Since his earliest childhood he had displayed a hypersensitivity to his surroundings. Nature is the supreme reality, the source of universal harmony; his immense respect for nature very soon aroused in him the desire to protect it against the attacks made on it by man and industry.*