This document discusses the artistic movement of Modernism. It focuses on three key figures: Antoni Gaudi, a Spanish architect known for his highly distinctive style, especially seen in his works in Barcelona; Mijail Eisenstein, a Latvian architect who worked in the Jugendstil movement in Riga in the early 20th century; and characteristics of Modernism such as organic forms inspired by nature and curved asymmetric designs.
2. PALACE OF CATALAN MUSIC
MODERNISM
Modernism is the term designating a
stream of artistic innovation developed in
the late 19th and 20th century A new art, young, free and modern,
that represented a break with the
dominant styles of the time, both
the academic tradition as the break
through.
Hyperbolas and parabolas in windows, arches,
and doors are common, and decorative
mouldings 'grow' into plant-derived forms.
3. TOWN HALL OF PRAGUE
MODERNISM
CHARACTERISTICS
• Nature (vegetals and rounded organic forms)
• Curved lines and the asymmetry in decoration.
• Stylization of the reasons, with less frequent representation
strictly realistic.
• Female images, waves, folds.
• Sensuality & eroticism.
• Freedom, exotic type reason, Japanese prints.
• Organic type wraps.
4. ASTORGA‘ s EPISCOPAL PALACE
ANTONI GAUDI
•Spanish Catalan architect and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's
works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely
concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the
Sagrada Família.
5. Booties House in León
ANTONI GAUDI
• The style that most influenced him was the Gothic Revival.
• Gothic to Gaudi was "imperfect" , it’d to be improved.
• Gaudi leads modernism in its heyday in the years lying between the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Modernism finds inspiration in the style
of historicism.
• Some essential features of modernism are:
- Anti-classical language heir of romanticism.
- Ornamental use of new materials.
- Plastic effect of the whole, optimism and faith in progress.
6. Building at Strelnieku’ s road
MIJAÍL EISENSTEIN
• Graduated in Civil Engineering Institute.
• Ministry of Interior.
• Maintenance of roads and civil works in Latvia.
• Germanic-Jewish Swedish origin.
• Orthodox Church.
• Mikhail's wife, Yulia Ivanovna Konetskaya.
• New couple in Riga.
7. Building at Elizabetes’ road
MIJAÍL EISENSTEIN
• Profession of architect. (19 buildings in Riga).
• Jugendstil movement.
• He spoke several languages.
• Designs by Hector Guimard, Henry Sauvage gave name to this artistic
movement.
• Not all his works fall within Jugendstil.
• Neoclassical style (before 1901).
• Not care about interior design or distribution.
• Focused on the decoration of facades and lobbies.
• Recharged facades.
• Symbolism.
• Elizabetes, Alberta and Strelnieku of the Latvian capital were built between
1901 and 1906.
