Tag Archives: Antoni Gaudi

our humble abode: serving the pious dandy?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dave

For Antoni Gaudi, as for the devout in the Middle Ages, almost anything in the universe could be read as a religious symbol. The Sagrada Familia is symbolic not only in its profusion of figurative sculpture and its conventional Christian … Continue reading →

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edible beauty and the great primeval hunger

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dave

Antoni Gaudi was a pioneer in architecture, still misunderstood and misinterpreted as something of a freak rather than a creator of an emotional, organic and innovative style that foreshadowed the work of Freud and the surrealism of Andre Breton. “Maybe … Continue reading →

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bending and twisting under desire’s distorting pleasures

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Dave

Antoni Gaudi was the great outsider of modern architecture. He was likely the inspired freak some detractors claimed, but he was also the father of an organic emotional style and ultimately a supreme artist…..In spite of these efforts at rehabilitation, … Continue reading →

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the cat in the cavern: surreal manifesto of yuzz, zats, fuddle…

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Dave

We all have some recollections of Dr. Seuss and in particular the unusual illustrations ( Theodor Geisel) which seemed to overshadow the narrative of the story. Nature was constantly bent, shaped and metamorphisized into hybrid living forms with unlikely and … Continue reading →

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gaudi: iron maidens, heavy metal and a lightness of being

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Dave

… For fences, railings, doors and various unnamable ornaments his favorite material was iron, sometimes in a laminated or cast form, but usually wrought; and here again he had rich local resources from which to draw ideas. Ironwork had been … Continue reading →

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Gaudi addicted to an ecstasy of modernismo

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Dave

Antoni Gaudi. He was the great outsider of modern architecture. He was likely both an inspired freak and the creator of an emotional, organic style. A supreme artist. …. The spread of the dates of his major works and the … Continue reading →

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gaudi: modernismo and expensive fantasy

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Dave

Exotic . Yes. somehow deaf to the entreaties of the less is more school. Almost no one would want to see a landscape completely filled by lesser Gaudi clones, but a little more exoticism that follows the path of the … Continue reading →

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