Parc Guell Trencadis
by Joan Carroll
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Title
Parc Guell Trencadis
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
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It's hard to improve on Gaudi! Here is part of Antoni Gaudi's famous serpent-shaped bench on the main terrace of Parc Guell in Barcelona Spain. It is constructed using 'trencadis', which is a type of mosaic used in Catalan modernism, created from broken tile shards, like tiles and dinnerware. Modernist architects made extensive use of ceramics, but Gaudí in particular proposed a more unconventional method. He covered his three-dimensional architecture with glazed ceramics of different shapes and colors, which created brightly colored patterns. His unconventional method however was to use discarded pieces of ceramic tiles collected from a factory. He was 'into' recycling long before it was fashionable! Trencadis is perhaps one of his signature techniques since it is seen extensively in nearly all Gaudi's work in Barcelona.
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February 21st, 2014
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