Abstract Artists
You will need to chose one of the artists featured in this presentation to
research and demonstrate an appreciation and understanding!
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What is Abstract Art?
What has influenced the artist to paint in his chosen
style. (can you see a link between their art and their own lives)?
What is the artwork about?
What do you like about the art of your chosen artist? Is
it cheerful, warm colourful, does it remind you of any
thing…..
What elements within the paintings would you use in
your own work?
Ideas for Painting and Collage
Embossed images cut from card or foam
Tonal Painting in a cubist style
Textured painting
create a textured surface to
Paint on to
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Hundertwasser
"Peace-Realm Hundred-Water".
The most creative art sometimes comes out
of the darkest places!
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (December
15, 1928 – February 19, 2000) was an Austrian artist (who later took
on New Zealand citizenship). Born Friedrich Stowasser in Vienna,
he became one of the best-known contemporary Austrian artists,
although controversial, by the end of the 20th century
Hundertwasse was a painter, architect printmaker and political activist
Hundertwasser was a Jewish child
born in Austria in the 1920’s
The Second World War was a difficult
time for Hundertwasser and his mother
Elsa, who was Jewish. They avoided
persecution by posing as Christians, a
credible ruse as Hundertwasser's father
had been a Catholic. To remain
inconspicuous Hundertwasser joined the
Hitler Youth
Nazi
Germany and the Third Reich
are common names for Germany during
the period from 1933 to 1945, when its
government was controlled by Adolf Hitler
and his National Socialist German
Workers' Party, commonly known as the
Nazi Party. Under Hitler's rule, Germany
was transformed into a totalitarian state
where nearly all aspects of life were
controlled by the state.
“The straight line leads to the downfall of society”
Hundertwasser believed strongly that architecture should have no straight lines and
That buildings should look organic as though they were grown rather than built.
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As a result of his experiences persecuted by the Nazi
regime Hundertwasser developed an anti-totalitarian
position early on. He was likely raised by his mother.
His early fears of the square marching battalions
associated with dictatorships may have led him to
oppose any "geometrization" of people and their
architecture. In a letter from 1954 Hundertwasser
described the square as "geometric rectangles
compressed columns on the march”
"Just carrying a ruler with you in your
pocket should be forbidden, at least on a
moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of
the new illiteracy. The ruler is the
symptom of the new disease,
disintegration of our civilisation."
"The straight line is ungodly."
Hundertwassers paintings were full of imagination and creativity,
vibrant and colourful you can see that there are no straight lines,
nothing is repeated, they almost have a child like quality to them,
they are a celebration of life in all its different forms and colour.
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Abstract Painting.
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Kandinsky
Kandinsky likened painting to composing music in the
manner for which he would become noted, writing,
"Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the
soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand
which plays, touching one key or another, to cause
vibrations in the soul".[
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
Kandinsky is believed to have had
synaesthesia, a harmless condition that allows
a person to appreciate sounds, colours or
words with two or more senses simultaneously.
In his case, colours and painted marks
triggered particular sounds or musical notes
and vice versa. The involuntary ability to hear
colour, see music or even taste words results
from an accidental cross-wiring in the brain
that is found in one in 2,000 people, and in
many more women than men.
Later in life, he would recall being
fascinated and stimulated by colour
as a child. His fascination with
colour symbolism continued as he
grew.
Kandinsky’s musical
paintings – It doesn’t
get much more
abstract than painting
sounds!
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Liquid Acrylic
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Painting onto at Textured Surface
Paul Klee
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18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a painter born in
Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered to be a GermanSwiss painter.
Paul Klee was an Abstract painter and his highly individual style
borrowed ideas from other art movements such as
expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was also a student of
orientalism
Quotes by Paul Klee
“When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more
significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. ”
“One eye sees, the other feels.”
“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. ”
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“Colour possesses me. I don't have to pursue
it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is
the meaning of this happy hour: Colour and I
are one. I am a painter.”
Klee began to introduce a new technique since 1905: scratching on a blackened glass
panel with a needle. In that manner he created about 57 Verre églomisé pictures,
among those the 1905 Gartenszene (Scene on a Garden) and the 1906 Porträt des Vaters
(Portrait of a Father), with which he tried to combine painting and scratching.
Fish Magic, 1925 by Paul Klee
In Fish Magic, Paul Klee creates a
magical realm where the aquatic, the
celestial, and the earthly intermingle. A
delicate black surface covers an
underlayer of colors, which the artist
revealed by scratching and scrawling
designs in the black paint.
Paul Klee’s Landscapes
Ideas for final Abstract Painting