Everytime I pass by one of my co-workers' desk, I have to stop and look at the paintings she hung on her cubicle wall. Today, I couldn't help but to tell her, from the bottom of my heart, that I love the paintings, and she started introducing this artist to me: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an painter/architect in Vienna. My co-worker started showing me Hundertwasser's architecture, and I am amazed and love his works. Yes, it almost feels like Gaudi's architecture in a different style.
Afterwards, I did a quick reserach on Hundertwasser, it only makes me becoming more intersted in him, here are something he stated:
"If we do not honor our past, we lose our future.
If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.”
"A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door."
"There Are No Evils in Nature; There Are Only Evils of Man.
When man thinks he has to correct nature, it is an irreparable mistake every time. A community should not consider it an honour how much spontaneous vegetation it destroys; it should rather be a point of honour for every community to protect as much of its natural landscape as possible. […] Now, almost too late, this age-old adage is being recognized and the courses of rivers and streams, which had been straightened in concrete channels, are being destroyed in order to restore the previous irregular state. What irony! So why regulate a stream if you have to deregulate it afterwards?"
Afterwards, I did a quick reserach on Hundertwasser, it only makes me becoming more intersted in him, here are something he stated:
"If we do not honor our past, we lose our future.
If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.”
"A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door."
"There Are No Evils in Nature; There Are Only Evils of Man.
When man thinks he has to correct nature, it is an irreparable mistake every time. A community should not consider it an honour how much spontaneous vegetation it destroys; it should rather be a point of honour for every community to protect as much of its natural landscape as possible. […] Now, almost too late, this age-old adage is being recognized and the courses of rivers and streams, which had been straightened in concrete channels, are being destroyed in order to restore the previous irregular state. What irony! So why regulate a stream if you have to deregulate it afterwards?"
3 comments:
hey you know what? we've been to the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna!! we even went inside but were limited to the staircase. it is an amazing building. & you're right, his work/ideology does remind me of Gaudi
Thank you for posting this!
Honor our past, build on our root... we need to ponder on the wisdom in that and live accordingly. No matter how hard people are naively trying, they cannot escaping from the fact that we're "from" somewhere. People are just too eager to "break all the rules" when they don't even know what the rules are.
adele, wuwuwu, I wanna be inside of his building!!!! wish I could go one day!
nth william, ya!! really need to work hard and very hard on that! how can we not care about our past, our root? this is actually what makes us (or what we produce) be able to stand solidly and meaningfully, no?
(the feeling is like the difference between limestone and vinyl) now make a choice!
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