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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
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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.
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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.*
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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
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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.
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Hundertwasser thought that a happy place should glow with bright
colours. He believed that everyone should live like kings in a
fairytale castle.
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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?
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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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To print
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To print
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To print
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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
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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
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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.
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Formal ElementsLineShapeFormToneTexturePatternColour
The vocab for creating artwork.Maybe illustrate on the board-
draw.*
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STEP 1
Cut out the colour wheel insert and stick it into the centre of
your paper plate or circle of paper.
Step 1
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Primary ColoursThese colours cannot be made by mixing any other
colours. Can you name them?
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Primary ColoursThese colours cannot be made by mixing any other
colours. Can you name them?
RedYellowBlue
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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. *
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Secondary ColoursThese colours are made by mixing pairs of
Primary Colours. Can you name them?
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Secondary ColoursThese colours are made by mixing pairs of
Primary Colours. Can you name them?
OrangeGreenPurple
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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?
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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
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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.
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Which of these pairs of colours are harmonious and which pairs
are complementary pairs (sit opposite each other on the colour
wheel)?
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oppositeoppositeharmoniousharmoniousoppositeharmoniousharmoniousoppositeoppositeoppositeharmoniousharmonious
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.*
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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.
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What vegetable was the idea of the five skins likened to?
Why?Circles are also a feature of Hundertwassers
paintings.Circles
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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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To print
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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What would you include in an ecological building design?WATCH
THIS- Earthships- ecological designMake a list of all the ideas in
the clip.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In pairs, design a Hundertwasser inspired building that saves
energy and resources or benefits the environment in some way.
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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
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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.
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"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
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Net ShapesHundertwasser used simple geometric shapes covered
with his distinctive patterns to create the forms in the game.
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These are over complicated but you can see how the basic shapes
accumulate to create something more complex.
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To printCube
Cuboid 1
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To printCuboid
Triangular Prism
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To print
TetrahedronCone
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CylinderTo print
Square based pyramid
Click here for more complex shapes
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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.
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Hundertwassers designs for DIE HOELZERSIEBEN
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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.
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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.*