MODERNISMEMODERNISME

Modernisme

• Barcelona, Catalonia late 19th c. And early 20th c.

• Architectural style, which also involves other arts (painting and sculpture), and especially the design and decorative arts

• Part of a general trend that emerges in Europe (known in each country as modernism, art nouveau, etc.)

• Modernisme is basically derived from the English Arts and Crafts movement and the Gothic revival

Modernisme

Predominance of the curve and the dynamic shapes over the straight line

Modernisme

Rich decoration and detail

Modernisme

Frequent use of vegetal and other

organic motifs

Modernisme

Asymmetry

Modernisme Use of “industrial” materials, like iron forgery, ceramics and

stained glass

• In the context of a spectacular urban and industrial development

• It is a style for the Catalan industrial bourgeoisie, who It is a style for the Catalan industrial bourgeoisie, who built industrial buildings and summer residences built industrial buildings and summer residences (families like the (families like the GüellGüell, , BatllóBatlló or or MiláMilá)

Modernisme

• His big passions in life: architecture, nature, religion.

an organic style inspired by nature

He rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to create them as three-dimensional scale models and molding the details as he was conceiving them.

Antoni Gaudí

Gaudí's first work was a set of lampposts for the Plaça Reial in Barcelona

Antoni GaudíAntoni Gaudí

• First years under the influence of neo-Gothic art and Oriental styles

Orientalist works

His relationship with Eusebi Güell

• Güell was a wealthy industrialist and entrepeneur

• He was so impressed with his first works that he wanted to meet Gaudí

• They became friends and Güell became Gaudí's main patron and sponsor

Naturalist period

• He perfected his personal style, inspired by the organic shapes of nature.

• New structural solutions

• Shapes and volumes devoid of rational rigidity or any classic premise

Casa Calvert

Porta Miralles

Güell Park

Güell Park

Originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site

The focal point of the park is the main terrace, surrounded by a long bench in the form of a sea serpent.

Güell Park

To design the curvature of the bench surface Gaudí used the shape of buttocks left by a naked workman sitting in wet clay

Güell Park

New techniques in the treatment of materials,

Trencadís, made of waste ceramic pieces

Curvy shapes and natural materials

The light• MediterraneanMediterranean• GodGod

• NatureNature• ReligionReligion

Nature & Geometry

CASA BATLLÓ

CASA MILÁ LA PEDRERA

Furniture

La Sagrada Familia

From 1915 Gaudí devoted himself almost exclusively to his most ambitious building, the Sagrada Família, a synthesis of his architectural evolution

The workshop todayThe workshop today

TEMPLE WORK BEGAN IN 1882TEMPLE WORK BEGAN IN 1882

Destruction of Gaudí study workshop during the civil war (1936) burning Gaudí plans and drawings.

Destruction of Gaudí study workshop during the civil war (1936) burning Gaudí plans and drawings.

The discovery in the municipal archives of the sketches signed by Gaudí, has allowed to know the heights of the towers and most of the details

The discovery in the municipal archives of the sketches signed by Gaudí, has allowed to know the heights of the towers and most of the details

• It has a cruciform plan, with a five-aisled nave, a transept of three aisles, and an apse with seven chapels

• It has three facades dedicated to the birth, passion and glory of Jesus

Façade of the BirthFaçade of the Birth

ONE OF THE INNOVATIVE DESIGN IDEAS WAS THE HEIGHT OF THE TOWERS AT THE FRONT PARABOLIC WITH A TENDENCY TO SPIRAL UPWARD AND PIERCED WITH MANY WINDOWSONE OF THE INNOVATIVE DESIGN IDEAS WAS THE HEIGHT OF THE TOWERS AT THE FRONT PARABOLIC WITH A TENDENCY TO SPIRAL UPWARD AND PIERCED WITH MANY WINDOWS

Nativity FacadeNativity Facade

At the base of the spine turtle (land and sea) as a symbol of time is

unchanged

At the base of the spine turtle (land and sea) as a symbol of time is

unchangedSculpture of st. Barnabe in its current location in naixement façanaSculpture of st. Barnabe in its current location in naixement façana

THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY FAMILY MONUMENT - MUSEUM MOST VISITED SPAINTHE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY FAMILY MONUMENT - MUSEUM MOST VISITED SPAIN

INTERIOR OF A TOWERINTERIOR OF A TOWER

HE DESCRIBES HIS VIEW OF THE FACADE OF THE PASSION OF GAUDÍ AS FOLLOWS:SOMEONE WILL FIND THE DOOR TOO EXTRAVAGANT, BUT I LIKE TO SEE YOUR FEAR, AND TO GET SPARE NO CHIAROSCURO, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AS BLEAK . ALSO, I'M WILLING TO SACRIFICE THE SAME BUILDING, THE IDEA OF A BLOOD SACRIFICE.

HE DESCRIBES HIS VIEW OF THE FACADE OF THE PASSION OF GAUDÍ AS FOLLOWS:SOMEONE WILL FIND THE DOOR TOO EXTRAVAGANT, BUT I LIKE TO SEE YOUR FEAR, AND TO GET SPARE NO CHIAROSCURO, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AS BLEAK . ALSO, I'M WILLING TO SACRIFICE THE SAME BUILDING, THE IDEA OF A BLOOD SACRIFICE.

THE FRONT DOOR OF THE GLORY SUBIRACHS WORKS. THE PRAYER OF

THE “PARE NOSTRE"

THE FRONT DOOR OF THE GLORY SUBIRACHS WORKS. THE PRAYER OF

THE “PARE NOSTRE" CENTRAL DOOR LEFTCENTRAL DOOR LEFT

Interior

Sculptural cycle of passion is installed on three levels, in ascending order s-shaped to play the calvary of JesusSculptural cycle of passion is installed on three levels, in ascending order s-shaped to play the calvary of Jesus

SCULPTURAL FORM THAT SYMBOLIZES THE MOUNTAIN OF MONTSERRAT - CAVALL BERNATSCULPTURAL FORM THAT SYMBOLIZES THE MOUNTAIN OF MONTSERRAT - CAVALL BERNAT

TOMB OF ANTONI GAUDÍ, LOCATED IN THE CRYPT OF THE HOLY FAMILYTOMB OF ANTONI GAUDÍ, LOCATED IN THE CRYPT OF THE HOLY FAMILY