Warm and Cool color collages with Hundertwasser

Two week project, students create collage paper the first week. 

Discussion: Warm colors? 

What do they make us feel?

Where do we find them? 

Why are they warm?

Where do we see them everyday?

Cool colors? 

What do they make us feel?

Where do we find them? 

Why are they cool?

Where do we see them everyday?

ARTIST: Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1978-2000)

GERMAN

The eccentric and playfully self-advertising Viennese artist 

Early school reports attested to his "exceptional feeling for colour and form". 

Hundertwasser spent three months at the Viennese Art Academy
He found the numerous and adventurous trips he took to Morocco, Tunisia, Nepal, Tokyo and Siberia inspirational for the path he intended to follow. 

Hundertwasser developed an abstract, decorative, two-dimensional and vibrantly colourful, utterly distinctive style distinguished by ornamental spiral and labyrinth forms, circles, meanders and biomorphic shapes.
During the 1960s Friedensreich Hundertwasser was extremely successful

Active in the ecological movement, Hundertwasser was committed to making life livable in a humane environment that was close to nature. 

So versatile and prolific was Hundertwasser that he also designed coins and stamps for Austria, Senegal and the UN from the 1970s. 

In 1981 Hundertwasser was appointed head of the master for painting at the Viennese Art Academy. 

The famous Hundertwasser House in Vienna, begun in 1983, attests to Hunderwasser's skill as an architect.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser died on a cruise ship off New Zealand in 2000.

PROJECT: WEEK 1: Create both a warm and a cool striped paintings 

Step1: on white paper paint a red stripe

Step2: using a craft stick and fork make stripes or marks in your red paint

Step3: make an orange stripe next to your red stripe

Step4: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your orange paint

Step5: repeat steps with yellow and continue with the stripes in warm and marks until page is full of stripes

using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your red paint

Step6: on white paper paint a blue stripe

using a craft stick and/or fork make stripes or marks in your blue paint

Step7: make an green stripe next to your blue stripe

Step8: using a craft stick make stripes or marks in your green paint

Step9: repeat steps with violet and continue with the stripes in warm and marks until page is full of stripes

Project: WEEK TWO

Step1: cut strips from your cool or warm colors (ARTIST DECISION) and glue them on the card stock

Step2: from the opposite color pages cut circles in three sizes and glue them on top of your stripes 

Step3: repeat until you have three flowers

Step4: add stems

MATERIALS AND TOOLS: 

White construction paper

Warm and cool colored paint

Pop cycle sticks

Forks

Adapted from:http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/10/hundertwasser-art-lesson-for-kids/