Found: Stunning Gaudí stained glass windows

[flamingdem]

http://www.thelocal.es/20140415/gaudi-barcelona-stained-glass-architecture

Published: 15 Apr 2014 12:55 GMT+02:00

Two stained glass masterpieces made by Catalonia's most prolific architect, Antoni Gaudí, have been discovered after being stashed away in a chapel outside Barcelona for decades.

[CTyankee]

1. What a wonderful find! Thank you!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Admittedly I am jaded, but really?

These are exceptional? How?

The Navy Pier in Chicago has stunning stained glass, an exhibit that puts these pieces to shame. I find nothing beautiful or extraordinary here. Bland, and not that interesting, actually.

[moriah]

3. Some people think the Mona Lisa is boring.

I mean, all it is is a woman sitting there where you can't tell if she's smiling or not....

It's more the age I suspect, and the artist.

[flamingdem]

4. Gaudi is using a modern vision with the traditional form of stained glass

thus important, as well as stunning.

[otherone]

7. the form

the process,
the art.

create! create! It is life..

[moriah]

6. Isn't it a bit of a stretch to call stained glass gaudy?

I mean, maybe in the wrong context... kidding, kidding. geez.

[flamingdem]

11. LOL You mean like this example?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

27. I am speechless

[flamingdem]

13. Oops I thought you had deleted this

[blm]

8. Beautiful. And I say that as a huge fan of Harry Clarke's work.

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[flamingdem]

16. Thanks, didn't know about Harry Clarke

and just looked up his unique stained glass work.

[blm]

18. I have a nice collection of books he illustrated, too.

I would bet that Clarke's illustrations, especially of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, influenced a young Tim Burton.

[LadyHawkAZ]

9. I think he was well-named

Never did care for his work. Still, it's always nice to see lost works rediscovered.

[joeybee12]

10. I fell in love with Barcelona largely because of his work...

It's everywhere...I have so many photos and I bought so many books about him when I returned home.

[flamingdem]

12. Any tips on not to be missed Gaudi creations?

Am planning a trip, un viaje a Barcelona pronto.

[joeybee12]

14. This was 15 years ago...be sure to visit the main park...he designed that...can't

think of the name...it's got the huge tiled lizard, and you can buy miniature souveniers of those EVERYWHERE. Stroll down the main tourist street...begins with a P...a couple of his houses there...and be sure to see the unfinished Church of the Holy Family...they'll never finish it...everyone argues over what he wanted...he was working on it when he died almost 100 years ago now, I believe...and they do a little more every once in a while, then people argue about how it did or didn't fit his "vision."

[TuxedoKat]

19. Park Guell

is the park and the church is the Sagrada Familia. There are other beautiful buildings around town by him too. I was fortunate to go there after the Olympics in 1992, and saw one of his apartment buildings which had recently been cleaned. It looked very different from when I had first seen it years earlier with many years of pollution cleaned off. I love his work too, and the city of Barcelona as well.

[joeybee12]

26. Thanks...

I wonder if they'll ever finish that church!

[hootinholler]

15. The first one is incredibly disturbing.

Quite a statement on religion and God is watching. The entire panel forms an eye within which there's the palm with eye.

[flamingdem]

17. Very observant of you, didn't see that aspect

now wondering about his religious beliefs..

[idendoit]

20. Wow, these seem restrained for Gaudi.

[Brigid]

21. Stunning. Wonder if they'll put them in here somewhere:

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[flamingdem]

24. For a second I thought it was an image

from a futuristic video game!

For sure art directors have used it as inspiration.

[Brigid]

25. That's the Sagrada Familia church.

It is not finished yet (that is expected in 2026), but by Nov. 2010 it was far enough along to dedicate it and hold the inaugural Mass.I saw the Mass on EWTN.

[Octafish]

22. Tralfamadorian

“The letter said that they were two feet high, and green., and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time. Billy promised to tell what some of those wonderful things were in his next letter.

Billy was working on his second letter when the first letter was published. The second letter started out like this:

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "so it goes.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[flamingdem]

23. I love this

got to go back and read this again

[Octafish]

30. Gaudi would have loved Vonnegut. Perhaps in another STC...

Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family at the Rings of Saturn

[WillyT]

28. Man I Loved That Book !!!

Thanks... gotta read it again... if I can find it around here.

[Octafish]

32. You know Borges?

Until you find Schlachthof-fünf":

Funes the Memorius

If you don't, you're in for a real treat in PDF: http://www.srs-pr.com/literature/borges-funes.pdf

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. wow

[ucrdem]

31. K'n'R

Gotta get back to Barcelona one of these days. . .