A Different Look at Landscapes

Last week we looked at landscapes from another perspective. We looked at the work of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and copied one of his works with a close up of a tree trunk. Hundertwasser was fascinated with spirals. He hated straight lines and called them "godless and immoral." His colors and shapes were related to nature. He designed buildings, coins, postage stamps, flags and clothing. He had unusal ideas about housing and art. We used his work to help us think about drawing and coloring things in a different way, realistic, but surreal. I found the base for this project on artprojectsforkids.org. The second picture is the artpiece we worked from.