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"Those who look for the laws of Dynamics as a support for his or her new works collaborate with the inventor." (Antoni Gaudí) Halfway in to the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not just one, but two gold eras - the Renaixença and the Industrial Trend. It was in this explosive amount of creativity, thriving prosperity, and invigorated patriotism that a steadfastly nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon was born, one that was about to take Catalonia by surprise with his great attention for unorthodox art work and his legendary - or as some would say, notoriously - out-of-the-box ideas. Salvador Dalí, the famous surrealist, was among the many who find a fount of motivation in him, even once raving about the Sagrada Familia, the focus on of this icon's profession: "Those who have not heard about the chromatic and glowing fact of its color, the amazing polyphony of its towers as organ pipes and surprised by its mutant naturalism, are traitors." This icon in question, of course, is none other than what many now consider to be the patriarch of the Catalan Modernism movements: Antoni Gaudí. Antoni Gaudí: THE LIFE SPAN and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism examines his life and profession highlights, how his religiosity and love for dynamics shaped his art work, and how a dangerous obsession eventually resulted in a genius' tragic end. You will learn about Gaudí like never before.

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