Countdown for the exchange: 4 days!!!!

There are only a few days left… so we want to introduce you a little bit of the Modernism in Barcelona because our work next week will be inspired in this art movement.

In the 19^th century, as a consequence of the industrial revolution, it appeared a new art movement in Catalonia and it had a lot of impact in Barcelona. One of the most important artists from that moment was Antoni Gaudí.  It was a bourgeois movement and it looked for the aesthetic side of the city. A lot of buildings were constructed at that time and we can admire them in the center of Barcelona, some of them in one of its most famous boulevards: Passeig de Gràcia.

As you know we are not going to make snow sculptures here, because there’s no snow in Barcelona and the Pyrenees are not very near;  instead we are going to try to design  kites. These kites are thought to be inspired in Gaudí and in the techniques he used, one of the most famous one: the mosaic. 

We can see some examples of his works in  Barcelona, his well-known private houses as Casa  Milà, La Pedrera (unfortunately we won’t be able to see the facade of it  because it’s being repaired) ,and  La casa Batlló; an open public space : Parc Güell; his worldwide famous unfinished church: La Sagrada Familia.

Here you have a link where you can find more information and images about the Modernism in our city: http://barcelonamodernista.com/