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Gaudí

Gaudí. Outcomes: To be able to give key facts about Antonio Gaudi and his style. To be able to recognise some of his most famous works and be able to describe his style in your own words. To begin your own design for a new outfit or school uniform based upon the styles used by Gaudi. Gaudí.

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Gaudí

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  1. Gaudí • Outcomes: • To be able to give key facts about Antonio Gaudi and his style. • To be able to recognise some of his most famous works and be able to describe his style in your own words. • To begin your own design for a new outfit or school uniform based upon the styles used by Gaudi.

  2. Gaudí Antoni Gaudí i Cornet 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926

  3. Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) – sometimes referred to by the Castilian translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí – was a Catalan architect who belonged to the Modernisme (Art Nouveau) movement and was famous for his unique style and highly individualistic designs.

  4. Birth and childhood Gaudí was born in the area of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain in 1852. The artist’s parents, Francesc Gaudí Serra and Antònia Cornet Bertran, both came from families of metal smiths. The youngest of five, Gaudí found he was too weak to play with friends his age because of arthritis. Because he was in considerable pain, he was rarely able to walk on foot and was forced to ride a donkey when he wanted to venture from his home. The fact that he remained close to home allowed him substantial free time to inspect nature and its design. It has been hypothesized that it was this exposure to nature at an early age that began to develop two of his greatest qualities: observation and the analysis of nature.

  5. Education Gaudí, as an architecture student at the EscolaTècnica Superior d’Arquitectura in Barcelona from 1873 to 1877, achieved only mediocre grades but did well in his “Trial drawings and projects” After five years of work, he was awarded the title of architect in 1878. As he signed Gaudí’s title, the school declared, “I have either found a lunatic or a genius.” The newly named architect immediately began to plan and design and would remain affiliated with the school his entire life.

  6. Later years Gaudí was an ardent Catholic, to the point that in his later years, he abandoned his others works and devoted his life to Catholicism and his SagradaFamília. He designed it to have 18 towers, 12 for the 12 apostles, 4 for the 4 evangelists, one for Mary and one for Jesus. He was not able to complete this work due to his untimely death. Because he did not use blue prints but worked from his imagination his fellow workers could not complete it. Now it is being restored but differences between his work and the new additions can be seen. It is for this that Gaudí is known to many in Spain as “God’s Architect“.

  7. Final Years On June 9, 1926, Antoni Gaudí was run over by a tram. Because of his ragged attire and empty pockets, multiple cab drivers refused to pick him up for fear that he would be unable to pay the fare. He was eventually taken to a pauper’s hospital in Barcelona. Nobody recognized the injured artist until his friends found him the next day. When they tried to move him into a nicer hospital, Gaudí refused, reportedly saying “I belong here among the poor.” He died three days later on June 12, 1926, half of Barcelona mourning his death. It was, perhaps, fitting that he was buried in the midst of his unfinished masterpiece, La SagradaFamília.

  8. His secret to success The secret of Gaudi's art is that he succeeded in grasping the patterns present in nature and the organic world and was capable of selecting from their infinite variety of shapes those that could be transposed into architecture. He pursued this course with great imagination: tree-trunks, branches, bones ribs, fishing nets and flowers all became ideas for designs which he used in churches, parks, schools and other buildings.

  9. Gaudí Some of his Most famous works...

  10. La Casa Batllo • Have a look at the following pictures and describe some of the artistic details you see. • What colours are used most? • What is the exterior of the building like? • What is the interior like? • Does it remind you of any animals?!

  11. La Casa Batlló "Mighty pillars that appear to resemble the feet of some giant elephant are the first thing to meet the eye of the passerby from street level. The roof reminds him of a completely different animal: it is bordered by a jagged line similar to the backbone of a gigantic dinosaur. A facade extends between the two, including a number of small, elegantly curved balconies that seem to stick to the front of the house like birds' nests on the face of the cliff. The facade itself glitters in numerous colours, and small round plates that look like fish scales are let into it. There are no edges or corners here; even the walls are rounded in undulations and have in essence the feel of the smooth skin of a sea serpent about them.” 1905-1907

  12. La Pedrera • What similarities are there with Casa Batllo? • What differences are there? • Does it remind you of any natural features? • What do you like most about the building?

  13. La Pedrera ‘the quarry’ was the name an astounded population gave to this completely unique building. It could be compared with the steep cliff walls in which African tribes build their cave-like dwellings. The wavy facade, with its large pores, reminds one also of an undulating beach of fine sand, formed, for example, by a receding dune. The honeycombs made by industrious bees might also spring to the mind of the observer viewing the snake-like ups-and-downs that run through the whole building. In this last secular building which he constructed before devoting all his energies to the SagradaFamilia, Gaudi created a paradox: an artificial but natural building which was simultaneously a summary of all the forms that he has since become famous for. The roof sports an imitation of the bench from Guell Park as well as an ever more impressive series of bizarre chimney stacks.

  14. Park Güell • Whattypes of features can yousee in Park Güell thatyou can see in Gaudi’sotherworks? • In youropinionwhat do thepeople of Barcelona thinkabouthaving a place like Park Güell?

  15. Your task: • You are going to design a new outfit using the artistic styles of Antonio Gaudi. • You can either do a design for: • A new school uniform • A new school PE kit • A prom outfit • A new school logo to go on the current school uniform • You need to think about: • the shapes Gaudi uses in his designs – e.g. the curves • the use of colours • the influence of nature (maybe for the Big Wood logo)

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