Weird creatures contemplate tourists from above while they visit Sagrada Familia cathedral. Animal sculptures, so common in Gaudi's art nouveau buildings, accentuate the mysterious halo around the temple mixing up Paganism and Christianity with unusual harmony according to my humble and lay appreciation of course.
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December 12, 2007
Gaudi Animals on Nativity Façade, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
Weird creatures contemplate tourists from above while they visit Sagrada Familia cathedral. Animal sculptures, so common in Gaudi's art nouveau buildings, accentuate the mysterious halo around the temple mixing up Paganism and Christianity with unusual harmony according to my humble and lay appreciation of course.
December 11, 2007
Detail of Faith Hallway or Entry in the Nativity Façade, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
This is a detail of the Faith hallway or entry located to the right of the Nativity façade in Sagrada Familia. It is an image of Jesus in his carpenter work bench. To get a better idea examine other sculptures from this façade featured in Barcelona Photoblog in the past: Turtle Holding Pillar, Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, Herod's soldiers Slaying Children and Adoration of the Magi
September 20, 2007
La Pedrera or Casa Mila by Gaudi: Balconies and Ironwork
Casa Mila by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi is logic defiant, even hard to frame properly with the camera!.
This modernista house is also known as La Pedrera (quarry) and has been featured in my blog several times.
Today I just want to concentrate on that set of irregular balconies with elaborate and impossible ironwork.
As you notice, the stone is cut and aligned in such manner that the balcony appears to undulate, like foamy waves that cast seaweed upon the shore.
Of course the seaweed would be the floral adornments in the wrought iron.
Gaudi was commissioned by the industrialist Pere Milà to build Casa Milà in 1906 and finished it in 1910.
It's a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1984 and thanks to Caixa de Catalonia (the bank that bought the building) it was restored and opened to the public in 1996.
September 02, 2007
Door Ironwork at Casa Mila or La Pedrera
This is a frontal view of the fabulous ironwork door at Casa Mila aka La Pedrera by Gaudi.
Check this great link: Iron and Metals in the Works of Gaudi
September 01, 2007
Nativity Façade: Herod's Soldier Slaying Baby
August 31, 2007
Turtle Holding Pillar at Sagrada Familia
August 28, 2007
August 26, 2007
July 22, 2007
Mosaic in the Chamber of the 100 Columns, Park Guell, Barcelona
Ceiling mosaic at the 100 column hall in Park Guell |
This is the second mosaic I show you of those you can admire on the ceiling of the Chamber of the 100 Columns at Park Guell.
Please read the last post here to know more. And of course, do follow labels to compare to other works by Antoni Gaudi.
I encourage you to enlarge the picture for a more detailed view of the shape of the fragments, their colors and distribution to make up the final figure.
Labels:
architecture,
art nouveau,
ceiling,
gaudi,
guell,
modernisme,
modernismo,
mosaic,
park guell,
park güell,
trencadis
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell, 08024 Barcelona, Spain
July 21, 2007
Gaudi Museum in Park Guell, Barcelona
Pink Tower - Gaudi museum at Park Guell |
This a museum inside Park Guell, a modernist house Gaudi bought in 1906 and that had been built by Francesc Berenguer, one of his collaborators.
The house had been part of the park's utopian projects and later it could not be sold. Thanks to that it came into Gaudi hands who lived there for 20 years first with his father and niece and then completely alone till 1926 the year of his death although he was not there till he died cause he abandoned the house some months before due to the distance with the city and went to his workshop in the cathedral.
The house was known as the Pink Tower because Antoni Gaudí was very devout to the Rose Virgin. This is the view of the building as taken from a low angle in the garden that is in the backyard.
Labels:
architecture,
art nouveau,
gaudi,
modernisme,
modernismo,
park guell
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell, 08024 Barcelona, Spain
July 20, 2007
La Pedrera or Casa Mila by Gaudi at Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona
Today I will go to bed quite late but it has been worth the time spent on posting this photograph. It has its flaws but I like the stormy look and the contour of this building: Casa Mila also known as La Pedrera one of the best works by Gaudi located at Paseo de Gracia.
You can see some people up there admiring the strange chimneys or turrets that are scattered all over the roof.
Have a nice weekend.
July 17, 2007
The Ceiling at Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona
This is a partial view of the impressive ceiling at Sagrada Familia cathedral by Gaudi.
It is hard to capture new angles when it comes to frame these columns that resemble trees or those sort of stars and flowers that simulate the thick canopy of branches in a tropical jungle.
The place is still under construction so it can be full of scaffolds but if you watch where you shoot, obstacles won't ruin your picture.
There's no need to say that geometry plays an important part in the design of this ceiling. If you enlarge and examine details you will discover the mathematical perfection Gaudi obtained after prolonged sessions with scale models in his workshop.
To make it look more surrealistic than it already is, I experimented a little with the picture and here is the result.
July 05, 2007
Nativity Portal at Sagrada Familia: Equilibrium and Chaos
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.
July 02, 2007
Ceiling Mosaic Inside The Chamber of the 100 Columns, Park Guell, Barcelona Spain
Trencadis ceiling at the 100 Columns Hall in Park Guell |
Not the first time Barcelona Photoblog visits Park Guell in Barcelona to show you the impressive work of Gaudi.
We have dealt with mosaic work recently, we mentioned the trencadis technique but we needed some more examples where the degree of improvisation and nature leitmotifs were more evident. Such is the case of this ceiling mosaic inside The Chamber of the 100 Columns including not only tiles but fragments of cups and dishes among other materials to make up something that recalls a flower.
Please follow labels for previous posts.
Labels:
art nouveau,
ceiling,
gaudi,
guell,
güell,
modernisme,
mosaic,
park guell,
trencadis
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell, 08024 Barcelona, Spain
July 01, 2007
Pure Classical Music at Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain
Double-bass playing classical music and girl at Park Guell |
A street musician playing for money at Park Guell in Barcelona.
The well tempered sound of the string instrument, a double bass I suppose, attracted a curious visitor who invaded the scene, something that I really, really appreciate. Classical music really touched the pure fibers of this baby cause she stood there like a grownup with a musical background.
Labels:
gaudi,
kids,
musicians,
park guell,
park güell,
people,
strings
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell, 08024 Barcelona, Spain
June 29, 2007
Geometric Models by Gaudi: Polyhedron at Sagrada Familia Museum
June 28, 2007
Mosaic Work Called Trencadis by Gaudi at Park Guell
A closeup of a serpentine bench adorned with mosaic work known as trencadis at Park Guell, Barcelona.
Trencadis, the technique that consists in breaking tiles of different patterns and different shapes to compose a single mosaic was constantly used by Antoni Gaudi and his followers. This particular shard with numbers on it reminds me of notations made by master masons or stone cutters on ancient walls.
Labels:
art,
gaudi,
mosaic,
park guell,
trencadis
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell, 08024 Barcelona, Spain
June 26, 2007
Guell Crypt: Caprice Supreme of Architecture
A supreme caprice of architecture: the art nouveau or modernist ceiling at the entrance to the crypt in Colonia Guell by Antoni Gaudi, who had been commissioned by Eusebi Güell the prosperous catalan businessman. Robert Hughes, art critic for Time, recently said he hates Sagrada Familia but loves Colonia Guell, the place where the crypt is. Of course we can object to that if we get carried out by the grandeur of the cathedral. Besides, experts see what we cannot see, no wonder they've been studying for years, although what we understand by art is a concept of man and not a law of nature so no one has the final truth. Anyway, it was about time someone cast a shadow of doubt over stereotypes concerning our city. I suggest you read the book by Robert Hughes: Barcelona. Here is a previous post about the Crypt at Guell Colony.
June 10, 2007
Mosaic Serpentine Benches: A Landmark of Barcelona
Serpentine bench with Trencadis mosaic technique by Gaudi |
This is I believe the third picture where I show serpentine benches by Gaudi located at Park Guell in Barcelona.
These mosaic or trencadis-made wonders of architecture and design look specially attractive under the last rays of the sun. Although I am used to watching them I always enjoy them as much as this tourist lost in his own thoughts through the viewfinder of his camera.
Labels:
architecture,
gaudi,
guell,
güell,
mosaic,
park guell,
park güell,
serpentine bench,
trencadis
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Park Güell, 08024 Barcelona, Spain
May 03, 2007
Colonia Guell: Windows - A Futurist Vista
These windows with futurist design at the crypt in Colonia Guell, Barcelona are more credible in a manga film, an avant-garde video game or a scifi illustration than drawn from the mind of a visionary architect in the XIX century. Gaudi in his constant search for perfection, beauty, divine inspiration and architectural challenges came out with these sort of armored skylights to absorb as much natural light as possible. The impossible lines of the building, the innovative stained glass work inspired in natural themes, the odd shape of the windows confirm the wonderful, almost supernatural, futurist vista of Gaudian architecture.
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