I bought 2 small booklets today, both written by artists working on Sagrada Familia.
Josep Maria Subirachs Guide to the Passion Facade and Joan Vila-Grau on The Stained-Glass Windows.
It was in the book by Josep that I found this beautiful description of the light I found inside the Sagrada Familia this morning.
In a piece titled, The Sun, The Best Painter he wrote: Gaudi is a master of light who knows all the resources needed to create heart-captivating atmosphere, and knows how to cover the windows, if need be, with colour, or how to simply guide the light over pure architectural surfaces.
He ends with a quote from Ignasi Puig Boada: The elements of the windows transform the Church walls with a palpitating light, as if the light, working like water flowing over stone, had dug into the thickness of the walls in a process of slow and polyform erosion.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Gaudi's Paint ...
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Woa, those are some fancy words to go with the breathtaking pics.
...process of slow and polyform erosion...
Thank you for the 'breathtaking' and I loved the words, though ... must blog them.
At first I imagined I would just buy a book on the church/temple itself but I loved reading about 'the artist' and so these books were a must.
What delighted me, and I hope I can find it on the internet, is the way Gaudi apparently always incorporated Nature into his works ... once I knew that, it opened a whole new series of doors for me. Of course, it left me wondering why I was taught barely anything interesting in school.
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