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Beauty is the splendor of truth, and like art is beauty, without truth there is no art.

Antoni Gaudí.

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La Muralla Roja, Calpe, Spain | Ricardo Bofill, 1968

La Muralla Roja, which means ‘The Red Wall’ in Spanish, is a postmodern apartment complex. The building references Mediterranean architecture and is listed amongst the most iconic works of Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill (1939-2022).

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Josep Maria Jujol

José Llinàs Carmona, Jordi Sarrà Arau

Taschen, Cologne 1992, paperback, 158 pages,  English/German/French,  ISBN  9783822897607

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Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949) developed his unusual architectural style through many years of close, creative collaboration with Antoni Gaudí. It is an eloquent expression of his affection for the Catalonian landscape, his modesty, and deep religious faith . Jujol's work is characterized by a higher degree of sensibility to the forms of nature, an emphatically anti-geometric aesthetic

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The Gaudí Crypt looks like a magical cave, a space where art and nature dialogue with absolute freedom. But don't forget that the Colònia Güell church is much more than  a masterpiece of modernism:  it is also a  parish  where all kinds of liturgies are celebrated and many weddings, baptisms, funerals and masses have taken place under its wavy cover.

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Antoni Gaudi-Catalan Eccentric or a Creative Genius

Antoni Gaudi-Catalan Eccentric or a Creative Genius

Some architects love to push their boundaries, designing or creating something as too whimsical as architecture. Extravagant, shape-shifting structure drawn from a variety of inspirations, Antoni Gaudí’s works are molded from geometry and nature forms. Antoni Gaudí, Catalan in full Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, was a Catalan Spanish Architect who was at the peak of his career in the late 19th and the…

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MWW Artwork of the Day (10/2/19) Antoni Gaudí (Spanish/Catalan, 1852-1926) Mosaic walls & Entrance Pavilion, Park Güell (1883-88) Barcelona, Spain

Park Güell is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona.  Gaudi was the architect of "sensual overload."  Colorful mosaics adorn the entire oval-shaped wall that encloses the park proper.  

Park Güell is the reflection of Gaudí's artistic plenitude, which belongs to his naturalist phase (first decade of the 20th century). During this period, the architect perfected his personal style through inspiration from organic shapes. He put into practice a series of new structural solutions rooted in the analysis of geometry. To that, the Catalan artist adds creative liberty and an imaginative, ornamental creation. Starting from a sort of baroquism, his works acquire a structural richness of forms and volumes, free of the rational rigidity or any sort of classic premises. In the design of Park Güell, Gaudí unleashed all his architectonic genius and put to practice much of his innovative structural solutions that would become the symbol of his organic style and that would culminate in the creation of the Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family (Catalan: Sagrada Familia). (Wikipedia info)

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MWW Artwork of the Day (8/28/19) Antoni Gaudí (Spanish/Catalan, 1852-1926) Casa Figueres [aka "Bellesguard"](1900-09) Barcelona, Spain

Bellesguard ("Beautiful View") is a modernist manor house located in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona.  Gaudí drew inspiration for its design from the medieval castle that once stood on the same site, built for the King of Aragon in the early 15th century.

The exterior façade is more neogothic, as Gaudí intended to pay tribute to the original medieval castle that once stood at the site. As is such, Gaudí used more straight lines, seldom seen in his usual work, which is especially apparent in the parapets and surface of the walls.  Torre Bellesguard is perhaps what the building is most recognized for, displaying Gaudí's typical cross of four arms decorated with red and yellow mosaics to mimic the Catalan flag. At the base of the cross one can also see what appears to be a crown wrapped around the circumference, likely Gaudi's symbolic acknowledgment of the site's significance to the crown of Aragon. 

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MWW Artwork of the Day (6/28/17) Antoni Gaudí (Spanish/Catalan, 1852-1926) La Sagrada Família (1882-?) Barcelona, Spain

The style that most influenced Gaudí was the Gothic Revival, promoted in the latter half of the 19th century by the theoretical works of Viollet-le-Duc. The French architect called for studying the styles of the past and adapting them in a rational manner, taking into account both structure and design. Nonetheless, for Gaudí the Gothic style was "imperfect", because despite the effectiveness of some of its structural solutions it was an art that had yet to be "perfected". In his own words: "Gothic art is imperfect, only half resolved; it is a style created by the compasses, a formulaic industrial repetition. Its stability depends on constant propping up by the buttresses: it is a defective body held up on crutches. (...) The proof that Gothic works are of deficient plasticity is that they produce their greatest emotional effect when they are mutilated, covered in ivy and lit by the moon."

After these initial influences, Gaudí moved towards Modernisme, then in its heyday. Modernisme in its earlier stages was inspired by historic architecture. Its practitioners saw its return to the past as a response to the industrial forms imposed by the Industrial Revolution's technological advances. The use of these older styles represented a moral regeneration that allowed the bourgeoisie to identify with values they regarded as their cultural roots. The Renaixença (rebirth), the revival of Catalan culture that began in the second half of the 19th century, brought more Gothic forms into the Catalan "national" style that aimed to combine nationalism and cosmopolitanism while at the same time integrating into the European modernizing movement.

Some essential features of Modernisme were: an anticlassical language inherited from Romanticism with a tendency to lyricism and subjectivity; the determined connection of architecture with the applied arts and artistic work that produced an overtly ornamental style; the use of new materials from which emerged a mixed constructional language, rich in contrasts, that sought a plastic effect for the whole; a strong sense of optimism and faith in progress that produced an emphatic art that reflected the atmosphere of prosperity of the time, above all of the esthetic of the bourgeoisie.

(Wikipedia extracts)