May Project: Hundertwasser Windows

Window Right, Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Project description:

• VTS - Visual Thinking Strategy based on viewing and discussion of Hundertwasser's decorative windows.
• Why did he want to beautify his city? To add life and happiness back into his city
• Designing expressive window patterns including raindrops, spirals, rings and repeating patterns.
• Layout and gluing of mosaic tiles symmetrically
• Development of view through their window = creativity 

Vocabulary

• Mosaic tiles
• Eccentric
• Symmetry

Resources:

• Book - A JOURNEY IN THE WORLD OF FANTASY WITH HUNDERTWASSER. by Prestel

Art Materials:

• Oil pastel
• Tempera paint
• solid and patterned mosaic tiles
• Sparkle crayons
• Metallic crayons
• Standard crayons
• Plastic crayons

Examples of Student work:

April Project: Hundertwasser Portraits

Three-Eyed Green Buddha with a  Hat, Friedensreich Hundertasser, 1963

Project description:

• A brief introduction to life of Hundertwasser.
• VTS - Visual Thinking Strategy used to explore Hundertwasser portraits with hats.  Students identified what they noticed and what they wondered about as they explored his work.
• Proper placement of facial features on face.
• How to drool eyes, nose, mouth
• Fine motor skills involved cutting, laying out pieces and gluing.

Vocabulary

• Portraits versus Self-portraits
• Patterns
• Spirals
• Tattoos

Resources:

• Book - A JOURNEY IN THE WORLD OF FANTASY WITH HUNDERTWASSER. by Prestel

Art Materials:

• Construction paper
• Water color paper
• Oil pastel 
• Tempera cakes

Examples of Student work: