The Spain Photography Workshop this year takes places in Barcelona and nearby locations in the Costa Brava.
The workshop theme is The Modernism of Gaudi and the Surrealism of Dali.
It will take place from the 17th to the 22nd of April
It will take place from the 17th to the 22nd of April
Antoni Gaudí helped the Catalan architecture to worldwide fame and reputation. Gaudí was also an architect and designer with a special ability to synthesise their own tradition and the courage to new technical solutions. He understood to integrate creative and plastic elements in his buildings.
Antoni Gaudí was born in 1852 in the Catalan town of Reus as the son of a craftsmen. In Barcelona, he studied architecture; he concluded his studies in 1878. During this time Catalonia experienced a period of cultural and political rebirth, the Renaixença, at a time of economic and urban growth. A big bourgeoisie patronage wanted not to mix with European currents.
The 1888 World's Fair awarded the generation of the modernisme the main impulses. Gaudí overcame the prevailing historical styles of the eclecticism of the 19th century and developed his own aesthetic with its own distinctive, but difficult to classify style.
Gaudí creation is closely linked to his patron, the industrialist and financier Güell. He has not only a considerable number of orders, but he stocked it with a high prestige. Even at a young age Gaudí was instructed with the construction of the Sagrada Familia, he later devoted exclusively his power to the church.
Gaudí is also a great craftsperson. In collaboration with artists of his time, he designed all the architectural space filled elements: works from forged iron, furniture, ceramics, sculptures, mosaics and stained glass windows. His forms were always organic, curved and into the building.
During the visit, we will visit privately some of the most representatives buildings of Gaudi and we will take amazing pictures.
Watch the amazing video of Casa Batlló
Watch the amazing video of Casa Batlló
Batlló house |
Batlló house |
Batlló house |
La Pedrera Tour virtual La Pedrera |
La Pedrera |