NUDE LIGHT: Modernism

Saturday, May 10, 2014

This weekend, Terrassa is a Modernist Town again.

Today and tomorrow, Terrassa celebrates its Modernist Fair. The people of the town get dressed in vintages clothes. Wherever you walk, you find expositions, gadgets, shows, performances, traditional trade, crafts... The city gets full of people as if it was the town's festival.

Terrassa has a lot of Modernist Houses, little palaces built in the style of Antoni Gaudi. One of the pupils of Gaudí was Lluís Muncunill, the Architect of the Masia Freixa, one of the most beautiful designs of the city.

Museu de la Ciència i Tècnica de Catalunya (Terrassa)

Museu de la Ciència i Tècnica de Catalunya (Terrassa)

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Barcelona, Gaudí, and modernism.

Image from TimBray in Wikipèdia

Modernism is one of the most beautiful artistic expressions of Barcelona. The architect, Antoni Gaudí, came true his imaginary creations through the construction of all types of buildings. These buildings have become a universal symbol of Catalonia.

In the picture above you can see the Sagrada Familia, perhaps his most iconic work.

Gaudí was a deeply religious person, and a great Catalan.

In 1924, at age seventy-two, Gaudí was beaten by the Spanish police.

Gaudí wanted to attend a Mass dedicated to the patriots killed by the Spanish army in 1714. Spanish government banned this Mass. Gaudí refused to obey the police. The police forbade him to speak them in Catalan, and tried to force him to speak in Spanish. Gaudí refused. Police beat him, and he had to spent all night in jail, and pay a fine.