Mark your calendars to meet in the Topaz room at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 17! The Fine Arts Guild presents a continuation of the web-attended May Salon on the Viennese artist-Gustav Klimt. This time, we are back in Vienna just after World War II and moving forward to the year 2000. Our featured artist is Friedenreich Hunterwasser. A man of his time and ahead of his time.
Leaving the Vienna School of Fine Arts at 20; he began his world travels. Inspired by ideas and images he saw abroad, he developed his own unique style. Although a Modernist, he was influenced by fellow artists Klimt and Egon Schiele. His work is characterized by vibrant colors, irregular shapes and the denial of straight lines. A sense of rhythm and energy dominates his paintings.
The natural world and its preservation dominates his thinking, painting and architecture. Truly a Renaissance Man, he worked as a painter, designer, investor, architect and environmentalist. He even collaborated with Ralph Nader in America.
In 1993, he was asked, “what should the arts be?” His response, “The Arts should be positive, free, romantic, beautiful-something like a jewel which you cannot do without”
Please join us for our Art Salon on Wednesday, September 17 focusing on a unique-multi-talented man who can still speak to us today.
This presentation will be led by Marilynn Davis and Greta Van Wrangel. Greta lived in Austria from 1945 to 1952 after fleeing her homeland during WWII. She will contribute an interesting perspective to our presentation and discussion.
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