Antoni Gaudí / Pottery Factory Pujol and Bausis

In the figure of Antoni Gaudí is important to distinguish the work of the artist (architect and designer) of the manufacturer. This planter would be based on a design by Gaudí, as the architect was always characterized by its total involvement in their projects, for studying and designing from the architectural spaces to the doorknobs, controlling even the smallest detail his work. Therefore, it is more likely to deal directly with this design, which also had to be especially on your taste, since it recurs in two of its most important houses.

Fascinated by the combinations of materials, both industrial and traditional, Antoni Gaudí naturalist pursues a big dream, and his work does merge the structure and decoration in a plastic mass living in a totally unique and personal style. This planter is central to a belly like a traditional vase, tapering towards the base and completely smooth surface on which the decoration is developed freely. Gaudi is a constant in the harmonious combination of naturalism and abstraction inspired plant-dominated designs and contracurvas curve typical of modernism, in compositions marked by asymmetry. . Outstanding in the top two heads of a faun, modeled very realistically, which seem to lean, appear from a dense vegetation. The Faun is the ideal union between man and nature, a concept that always fascinated by Gaudí, and that was the basis of its architectural design. This piece also highlights the use of glazes, applied unevenly, very expressive, looking for unique and surprising effect of the colors of nature

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