I will be brief cause I am behind schedule in my daily posting. This is a detail of the Nativity Portal at Sagrada Familia. The façade as you know is full of sculptoric groups such as the one in the picture. Each of these groups is well balanced in composition and proportions but when you take some steps back and take a look at the whole building you face up with an authentic chaos of animals, saints and mythological beings. Maybe there is harmony in this chaos but if there isn't you never really care. The work of a genius sometimes is whimsical and hard to understand that's why we consider them unique.
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Thursday, July 5, 2007
Nativity Portal at Sagrada Familia: Equilibrium and Chaos
Labels:
architecture,
gaudi,
July 2007,
nativity façade,
nativity portal,
sagrada familia,
sculpture
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