abstract image; central blue rectangle with darker blue stripes with radiating blue and red lines; pink and blue freehand rectangles around center rectangle; silver, red, and green fence picket-like elements around edges; some yellow and green inside picket forms; blue at edges, with some red dots; two red seals in URC, one red seal in LRC; Japanese inscription in silver, URC; received matted

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Rain of Blood is Falling into the Garden, 1972 (published 1973)

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Friedensreich Hundertwasser (born Friedrich Stowasser) was an acclaimed Austrian painter, printmaker, architect, and designer whose work was strongly informed by the example of Gustav Klimt and other artists of the Vienna Secession, a modernist art movement that rejected traditional academic art and instead promoted aesthetic innovation in contemporary art and design. Like the secessionists, Hundertwasser expressed a passion for asymmetry, labyrinthine spirals, and arabesque lines, assailing the modern industrial “straight line” world that he called “the rotten foundation of our doomed civilization.” For both his visual art and architectural projects, Hundertwasser incorporated asymmetrical designs, intense color, elaborate ornamentation, and organic forms as a prominent features.

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Title
Rain of Blood is Falling into the Garden
Artist Life
1928–2000
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2019.147.17
Provenance
Richard M. Sweet, M.D., Santa Rosa, Calif.; given to MIA, 2019.
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abstract image; central blue rectangle with darker blue stripes with radiating blue and red lines; pink and blue freehand rectangles around center rectangle; silver, red, and green fence picket-like elements around edges; some yellow and green inside picket forms; blue at edges, with some red dots; two red seals in URC, one red seal in LRC; Japanese inscription in silver, URC; received matted

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