Hi all, I haven't written any post at Blogger quite a long time since two years. I think it is time to start again.
I just came back from Barcelona, Spain at the beginning of this month. This is my second trip to Europe and it can be called as my journey of art exploration. Almost each of tiny rock inspired me. [excuse my exaggeration]
I want to introduce one of my favorite masterpiece, Sagrada Familia (Basilica I Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia) in this trip. Before I visited the Basilica, I wasn’t motivated to get in there after seeing a long line up outside the entrance. Then, with my husband’s persuasion, I revisited there another day, very early in the morning! The line up wasn’t bad, just about ten minutes wait. Once we got inside the entrance, we crazily took pictures to the building as any tourists. At that time, I still didn’t have a big feeling about it. Compared to Vatician in Rome, there were some figurines of unusal styles and shapes. When I got inside the church, the columns, stainglasses and altar were really varied than what I saw in Paris, Florence and Rome. I kept telling to myself there might be a reason why the church was built in this way. So, I started opening up my mind to the story behind this creation.
The construction of Sagrada Familia was begun in 1882. Then Antoni Gaudi became involved in 1883 and took over the project & adopted his own style. It combines Gothic & Art Nonveau forms. Until 1926, Gaudi was died and the construction wasn’t finished. At that time less than a quarter of the project was completed. Even though Gaudi was died, the building of the church still followed his original idea.
Supported by private donations, this project was going on slowly. Intermittently, Spanish Civil War was broken out, along with other challenges as well. It was expected to be finished until 2026, i.e. the centennial of Gudi’s death. [For more details, please visit at La Sagrada Familia Museum website.
