Gaudi's final piece of work before he was tragically killed in an traffic accident. the church, or should we say the temple, was perhaps one of its kind in the entire world, while we have different churches around the world with varying design, they can still be somehow classified to a certain period or style of expression. but the Sagrada Familia was something entirely different and simply made ones jaws dropped to the ground!!!
we are curious on why the name "temple" instead the more common "church" is used throughout in Spain despite the fact that this is supposed to be a Roman Catholic Basilica.
three facades that it is supposed to have, Gaudi's completed Nativity facade is hugely different from the Passion facade. while both are remarkable piece of architecture, the question of whether the temple ought to be completed or to be left as originally incompleted to preserve the pureness of Gaudi's works remain to be highly controversial.
the Passion facade, completed by Gaudi, when observed closely, reveals immensely delicate work of art, but when viewed from a distance, can not help but think that it's the face of an unnamable being that only appears in the darkest of one's dreams.
the duality of the image in front was troubling...why was a place for the worship of God modelled in such way?
2 comments:
but was it a place intended for the worship of God?
my favourite so far is still the one that I posted a comment saying it looks like a skeleton, nothing beats that (so far), cannot locate it in you blog now
ah, just located the building I was talking about under the heading "a dreamlike stroll...Gaudi's works" in this blog
oops, I said it looked like a skull, not a skeleton
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