Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Originally the painting was two watercolours, two parts: an upper and a lower part. I put them together and sold them to a collector in Hamburg. It was not a particularly beautiful picture until I finished painting it later, the way it is shown here. After it was finished, I thought a long time about the name and finally came up with The Heart of the Revolution. By that I did not mean a wild revolution, but one which slowly spreads, kind of a vegetative revolution, a kind of evolution. I can leave a painting untouched for years, often three, four, five years, and suddenly I finish it. This is a painting I am particularly fond of. I think the title is a good choice. It really is a heart that is beating. Unfortunately the technique cannot be made out in the colour reproduction. The picture is painted partly with water technique and partly in oil. The result is that parts of the painting are matte and others shiny. That gives the painting a fascination of its own, by virtue of the contrast, not just that of complementary colours such as red and green, but also the contrast of matte and shiny surfaces. That, I think, is a specialty of mine. (from: Hundertwasser, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing, 1964 and ed. 1973, p. 14)