"Color in architecture must be intense, logical and fertile," Gaudí wrote in the late 1870s. He enlivened the facade of his Casa Batllà³ with scalelike roof tiles meant to evoke a dragon's back ...
NO art style seemed more surely dead and buried than Art Nouveau, the turn-of-the-century vogue for flowing, whirling motifs and gingerbread gewgaws. Thrown out by cubist artists who viewed such ...
L’art nouveau est le nom donné en France au mouvement artistique qui s’est développé dans toute l’Europe entre 1890 et la première guerre mondiale. Le modernisme catalan sera le point d’orgue de cette ...