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Watercolour and marker
©2014 Charlene Brown
The unique and always extravagant
artistic vision of Friedensreich Hunderwasser (1928-2000) expressed itself in painting,
environmentalism, design of facades, as well as stamps for various countries
and the United Nations. The common themes in his work are bright colours,
organic forms, a reconciliation of humans with nature, and a strong
individualism. He was not fond of straight lines.
His architectural work is comparable to Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926)
in its use of colourful tile and biomorphic forms. He was also inspired by the
art of Austrian painters Egon
Schiele (1890 -1918) and Gustav Klimpt (1862 - 1918).
I love Hundertwasser’s work, and have previously painted one of
his facades – a district heating plant in Vienna University of Victoria Travel Study
Most of the UVic program involved much older structures – Roman
Archaeology and Medieval and Venetian Renaissance architecture and I’ll be
writing some blog posts about these as soon as I finish up a few more
paintings.
