Key Vocabulary/ Formal Elements:

Line Defines shape, the outer edge of

something.

Organic

lines/

shapes

Organic lines/ shapes are as-

sociated with things from the nat-

ural world, like plants and animals.

They are flowing and not angular

or straight.

Composi-

tion

A way of combining images to cre-

ate a pleasing design.

The Five Skins

1. Your Skin

2. Your clothes

3. Your home

4. Your local environment

5. The Earth

Symbol-

ism

Hundertwasser often used facial

features like eyes and mouths in

his landscapes. He used bold,

bright colour and organic lines and

forms, i.e. lollipop trees and

curved lines in his architecture.

Land-

scape

A landscape is what you see when

you look across an area of land,

e.g. hills, rivers, buildings, trees,

animals &man made structures.

KS3 - Year 7 Art & Design Knowledge Organiser - ‘Hundertwasser-inspired’ Stamp Design/ 3-D Model

Stamps designed by Hundertwasser

Hundertwasser was born on 15th De-cember 1928 in Vienna, Austria.

His real name is Friedrich Stowasser. After World War 2, Hundertwasser

studied for three months at the Acade-my of Fine Arts in Vienna.

The first exhibition of his work was held in Vienna in 1952.

Hundertwasser has produced many different types of works of art (ranging

from paintings, postage stamps, clothes, flags).

His work often includes bright colours and natural, organic forms. He seldom

uses straight lines, and uses lots of spirals.

He also became interested in

architecture and he has designed

many houses using irregular forms

Views of The Forest of Dean

What is a Stamp? People use them to mail letters, bills, parcels and postcards. Without prepayment, like stamps,

people would not be able to mail their letters. They are self-adhesive images found on the upper right corner on an envelope.

Stamps can be bought from a post office or from shops. Stamps always include three important pieces of information in their design: subject, stamp

value, and country of origin. It is important that the value is placed on the stamp so that peo-ple know how much to pay for it.

Subject designs are important because it makes the stamp interesting to look at as well as reflecting the country's national identity.

Poster paint Black fine liner

Coloured pencils

camera Leaflets about

The Forest of Dean

Materials and Tools