Proposals

1. Key Influences
• Influences began with Alex Katz and Hundertwasser mainly due to
their use of colour within their work
• Hundertwassers architecture inspired me to focus on buildings for
this project, particularly ones with interesting irregular shapes
• Katz flat style of painting appealed to me as well as the bright colours
• Buildings in Vienna because of the decorative, ornate style yet muted
colours, I wanted to reverse this and use bright colours but a more
simplified style

2. Proposal 1
• For this proposal I took a composition from my model and made it on
a larger scale using cardboard.
• Shapes were taken from different buildings/monuments in Vienna
such as Hundertwassers fountain and I used the shape as well as the
negative space.
• I had been looking at Katz work however this proposal doesn't have
that element of flat colour because I had to blend the colours but it
does still use bright colours inspired by him.
• The irregular shapes used by Hunderwasser in his paintings inspired
me to use similar ideas in mine.
• The elements of texture added from the corrugated cardboard
brought my other experiments of collagraph printing into the design
and combined the flat painting with some texture.
• This proposal communicates the difference in architecture in Vienna
with inspiration from artists I researched whilst there. It highlights the
conservative early 20th century style buildings with the bright colours
of its modern art and architects such as Hundertwasser.

3. Proposal 2
• For this proposal I took a composition from my model and made it on
a larger scale using cardboard.
• I had been looking at Katz work which is reflected here through the
flat colours and contrasts with the older style building.
• Hundertwasser was still an inspiration for this for the way he used
colour and gave his artwork a childish feel, similar to what I have tried
to create here.
• The elements of texture added from the netting brought my other
experiments of collagraph printing into the design and combined the
flat painting with some texture.
• This proposal communicates the difference in architecture in Vienna
with inspiration from artists I researched whilst there. It highlights the
older Belvedere Palace in monochrome with the bright colours of its
modern art and architects such as Hundertwasser.

4. Proposal DEVELOPMENT
• To develop my proposal further I would practice making it out of
wood as my final piece would be a wooden relief painting instead of
cardboard.
• I would also look at adding in more texture inspired by my collagraph
print because at the moment it looks too flat. This could maybe be
done by printing directly onto the wood however I’d have to
experiment with that as I don’t know how well it would work.
• Changing the composition or adding in new shapes could add a new
interest to it because the composition hasn’t changed much since my
model.