03 — ARTWORK
Casa Vicens: general view
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In 1883, Manel Vicens i Montaner, a stock and currency broker, entrusted the young architect with designing his summer garden home in the former village of Gràcia. It is his first masterpieceA term now loosely applied to the finest work by a particular artist or to any work of art of acknowledged greatness or of preeminence in its field. Originally it meant the piece of work by which a craftsman, having finished his training, gained the rank of'master' in his guild. and one of the first buildings to kick off the Modernisme movement in Catalonia.
Gaudí's first important buildings reveal an imaginative experimentation with ornament and construction, exploiting local building techniques, materials, and craftsmanship along with Arts and Crafts principles, albeit at first with an Islamic flavour. His use of azulejos (glazed tiles) in particular helped to revitalize the local art of tile-making.
The three-storey Casa Vicens has walls of red earth-coloured rubble with polychromatic counterchange tile banding. Its tall top storey is set back behind a perforated screen supported by highly original Y-headed colonettes; the turreted brick façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. of the garden cascade (destroyed) had a distinct MudéjarSpanish style of decorative art based on the imitation of Islamic forms. character reminiscent of the 13th-century brick churches of Castile.
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