Art History - Friedensreich Hundertwasser

In my Art History 2024-2025 blog post, I decided that April would be Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Here are some resources and planning notes for this incredible artist!

Friedensreich Hundertwasser
1928 - 2000

also

Art History Kids - April 2024

The Five Skins, p.23

1st skin, p.22 - Your Body
Self portrait

2nd skin, pp.24-25 - Your Clothes
Dress up, be a fashion designer, clothing collage, make paper dolls

3rd skin, pp.26-27 - Your House
Blocks, cardboard box "window rights"

4th skin, p.28 - Your Identity
Design a stamp

5th skin, p.29 - Your Planet
Create a poster with an environmental message

Art History Kids - April 2019

Week 1 Project
1st skin, p.11

Week 2 Project
2nd skin, pp.6-7

Week 3 Project
3rd skin, p.8

Week 4 Project
4th skin, pp.2-4

Week 5 Project
5th skin, p.6

https://hundertwasser.com/en

All Species Puppet Parade 2022 - Earth Day

Carbondale "At the Table" Dinner & Dialogue Series - Earth Month

future field trip possibility - SIU's Green Roof!

I recommend joining Lotus Stewart's Art History Kids website (The Studio) and getting access to her past lesson plans. I like her work, and find it's really helpful to have so many ideas that I can use as a jumping off point.

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week of Apr 7 / Skin 1

Tue

divide children into small groups

give each group five examples of Hundertwasser's work
(examples from coloring book as well as Apr 2024, pp.9-18)

have each group make a Word Cloud of their conversation
(Apr 2019, week 2, p.1)

bring groups together and compare the word clouds

"Let's Meet the Artist" discussion
(Apr 2019, week 2, p.2)

nature walk to Chautauqua Bottoms to look at the wildflowers

Thu

look at graphic of The Five Skins
(Apr 2024, p.23)

do 1st skin activity - Self Portrait
(Apr 2024, p.22)

next time I will read The Colors of Us by Karen Katz and do the "How to Paint Skin Tone" lesson by Cassie Stephens for 1st skin instead



https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2017/10/in-art-room-how-to-paint-skin-tone.html

week of Apr 14 / Skin 2

Mon

do 2nd skin activity - Paper Dolls
(Apr 2019, week 2, pp.6-7)

OR make and decorate Jumping Jacks (PDF)

next time I will do the "Dancing Map Dolls" from Kids Weaving by Sarah Swett for 2nd skin instead

week of Apr 21 / Skin 3

Mon

read The House of Happy Spirits: A Children’s Book Inspired by Friedensreich Hundertwasser by Géraldine Elschner

"Tree Tenants + Window Rights" discussion
(Apr 2019, week 3, p.7)

have each child create their own Art Manifesto
(Apr 2019, week 3, p.1)

do 3rd skin activity - Cardboard Box "Window Rights"
(Apr 2024, p.27)

read The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Tue

Earth Day

AM

read The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng by Sophia Gholz



"Quote to Ponder" discussion
(Apr 2019, week 3, p.2)

"Earth Day" discussion
(Apr 2019, week 4, p.3)

recall our Cob Bread Oven and building with recycled objects
(Apr 2019, week 3, p.6)

look at dot matrix paper, tear it at the perforations, take the strips off the edges, add it to our school papers so that it will not be wasted


PM

do activities from Earth Day SWI packet from Fiona Hamilton
pp.1, 5, 6

week of Apr 28 / Skin 4

Tue

read One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul



"Connections to Community" discussion
(Apr 2019, week 4, p.2)

do 4th skin activity - Stamp Design
(Apr 2019, week 4, p.4)

Avery Multi-Use Labels (1" x 3"), cut into 1 inch squares, 6 per child

week of May 5 / Skin 5

Tue

read Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm



5th skin special guest re. SIU Climate Action Plan
Senior Engineer, Facilities & Energy Management, SIU Physical Plant

how is the university going to eliminate its use of coal by 2050?

In addition to the Art History lesson for my regular school group (age 7-13), I'll have a Monday afternoon Art History class for early childhood (age 5-7). I think the "littles" will love Hundertwasser!

week 1 - self portrait
week 2 - paper dolls
week 3 - cardboard box "window rights"
week 4 - stamp design

there are also ideas for small children in this activity book:

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