Jaanipäev.

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→ 17 Jun 13 at 11 pm lifeinfluxus:

155 Three High Houses - Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1953)

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→ 17 Jun 13 at 11 pm thetrexdiaries:

The ‘Waldspirale’ apartment building designed by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and implemented by the architect Heinz M. Springmann.

The building contains 105 apartments, a parking garage, cafe, bar, playground, and an artificial lake.

thetrexdiaries:

The ‘Waldspirale’ apartment building designed by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and implemented by the architect Heinz M. Springmann.
The building contains 105 apartments, a parking garage, cafe, bar, playground, and an artificial lake.

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→ 17 Jun 13 at 11 pm burnedshoes:

© Ichiro Kojima / Hundertwasser Privatstiftung Wien, 1961, Tokyo

Friedensreich Hundertwasser in Tokyo with his painting “Erste Japan-Spirale.”

At first, the hypothesis that in his early work Friedensreich Hundertwasser was substantially influenced by Japanese art and Far Eastern philosophy may sound astounding. However, the fact that his art was covered in Japanese art magazines as early as the mid-1950s and that his breakthrough as an artist was closely linked to his one-year stay in Japan corroborates this interesting theory.

As many European artists of his time, Hundertwasser interpreted Taoism’s and Zen Buddhism’s lines of thought in a most creative fashion that was based on his fascination for Japanese woodcuts by Hiroshige and Hokusai. His early works impressively demonstrate how he reached his own artistic maturity in the late 1950s with his process-oriented manner of painting, experimental pictorial compositions, and painting actionism, thereby moving entirely on the same level as the international avant-garde.

The exhibition “Hundertwasser, Japan and the Avant-garde” (21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna / Mar. 6 - Jun. 30, 2013) illustrates the Japanese avant-garde’s direct and indirect impact on Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s early work by means of selected examples. Comprising more than 40 works by the artist and numerous works by exponents of the international avant-garde – including Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dubuffet, Tetsumi Kudo, Akira Kito, Yayoi Kusama, etc. It is the first exhibition to highlight this aspect of the artist’s work in an international context.

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burnedshoes:

© Ichiro Kojima / Hundertwasser Privatstiftung Wien, 1961, Tokyo
Friedensreich Hundertwasser in Tokyo with his painting “Erste Japan-Spirale.”
At first, the hypothesis that in his early work Friedensreich Hundertwasser was substantially influenced by Japanese art and Far Eastern philosophy may sound astounding. However, the fact that his art was covered in Japanese art magazines as early as the mid-1950s and that his breakthrough as an artist was closely linked to his one-year stay in Japan corroborates this interesting theory.
As many European artists of his time, Hundertwasser interpreted Taoism’s and Zen Buddhism’s lines of thought in a most creative fashion that was based on his fascination for Japanese woodcuts by Hiroshige and Hokusai. His early works impressively demonstrate how he reached his own artistic maturity in the late 1950s with his process-oriented manner of painting, experimental pictorial compositions, and painting actionism, thereby moving entirely on the same level as the international avant-garde.
The exhibition “Hundertwasser, Japan and the Avant-garde” (21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna / Mar. 6 - Jun. 30, 2013) illustrates the Japanese avant-garde’s direct and indirect impact on Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s early work by means of selected examples. Comprising more than 40 works by the artist and numerous works by exponents of the international avant-garde – including Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dubuffet, Tetsumi Kudo, Akira Kito, Yayoi Kusama, etc. It is the first exhibition to highlight this aspect of the artist’s work in an international context.
» find more photos of famous people here «

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→ 17 Jun 13 at 11 pm

doing some german holiday research.

"The popular recreational drug Ecstasy was first synthesised in Darmstadt in 1912 by a chemist known as Anton Kollisch while he was working for the pharmaceutical company Merck."

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→ 17 Jun 13 at 10 pm

George Orwell, A Collection of Essays (via sezullive)

(Source: quotes-shape-us, via manemoj)

"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."

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→ 17 Jun 13 at 10 pm birikforever:

Adriana Argalia - Diana in altalena, Numana, 1984

(via laukitsch)

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→ 17 Jun 13 at 10 pm bag-of-dirt:

Italian anti-fascist partisans regroup in the Valley of Aosta above the Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo pass in the Italian Alps. Italy. 1945.

(via butterlegs)

bag-of-dirt:

Italian anti-fascist partisans regroup in the Valley of Aosta above the Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo pass in the Italian Alps. Italy. 1945.