Showing posts with label Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Show all posts

few things make me drool

(I could list them, but you're spared) the art of Hundertwasser certainly does it for me - perhaps not for you, I can see how some wouldn't think it "art". . . I was entranced by the work when I first came across it at a show in the late 80s, at the time I was an impoverished student so left with nothing but a few postcards; now I own a small book, a little like a single version of one of the below, which glitters from the bookshelf due to the green foil embossing on the cover. . .

. . .I think seeing the silver and gold foils used in the artworks was one of the reasons the paintings stuck such a chord with me, not that I was a magpie or liked shiny things - more that I'd never seen metallic foils used this way: even the post cards were blocked with foil. . . marvellous
reproducing the works for a computer screen does create a certain dullness, without the glow of the metallic embossing the painting seem almost shadows, lacking their potency. . . but I still find them intriguing

I find the shapes and the patterns and the pallettes fascinating

I hope your day hasn't been dull
but that you've had moments which shined
and will glow upon reflection,
if you see what I mean