#Catalan Modernism

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Casa Coll i Regàs, a house built in the Catalan Modernist style in Mataró (Barcelona Metropolitan Ambit, Catalonia). It was designed by the Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch and built in 1898.

Photo by nurigari on Instagram, Visit Mataró, and Casa Coll i Regàs on Facebook.

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Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa

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Harsh shadows

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Joan Miró (1893-1983) — Naked Woman [oil on canvas, 1931]

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Salvador Dali

Biblia Sacra

Filiae Herodiadis saltatio (The Dance of Herodias’ Daughter)

1964

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look for the name SEDA (requested by anonymous) | a modern vintage (on etsy) antique lace fichu and dotted gray bodice (c. 18oo's), zoe gustavia anna whalen handmade deadstock bedsheet petticoat ("made of sixteen panels, handsewn pleats and antique lace, adjustable button closure at waist"), marina bychkova porcelain ball-jointed "the muse of art nouveau" "enchanted" doll, les fleurs studio antique crochet upcycled headpiece w/ metal coins, maison margiela floral tapestry tabi ankle boots

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El Jardin del Principe de Aranjuez (The Garden of the Prince of Aranjuez), Santiago Rusiñol, 1913

Oil on canvas 30 ½ x 30 ½ in. (80 x 80 cm)

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Also I realize that the answer is probably just reading enough period sources but as a linguist I really do need to pick Patrick O'Brian's brain about where in the world he got his different speech patterns from

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Happy #WorldDonkeyDay 🫏!

Joan Miró (Catalan Spanish, 1893-1983) The Vegetable Garden with Donkey, 1918 oil on canvas, 64 x 70 cm Moderna Museet NM6078

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Evru/Zush (Albert Porta) (Catalan b. 1946), Renusa, 1989-1990. Infographic, Acrylic painting on photography print mounted on wood, 200 x 100 x 5 cm.

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Wine cathedrals

In Catalonia, historically one of the main occupations has been growing vineyards and making wine. In the early 20th century, wine workers' trade unions and cooperatives built beautiful buildings for their job.

In 1921, the famous Catalan writer Àngel Guimerà, already in his elderly years, visited the seat of the Agricultural Union in the village L'Espluga de Francolí. Amazed at its sight, he called it a "wine cathedral". This name has become the denomination of this kind of buildings, built in the Catalan Modernist style. Many of them were designed by the Catalan architect Cèsar Martinell.

Though it's difficult to show the size and monumentality of these buildings only with photos, I have added some of them below. The photos where you can see the wine containers below are taken already from a very high point (the ground is under the wine containers).

Cooperative winery in l'Espluga de Francolí (Camp de Tarragona, Catalonia). Built in 1913. Photo by Marc Castellet and Javier Hidalgo.

Winery of the Agriculture Cooperative in Gandesa (Terres de l'Ebre, Catalonia). Built in 1919. Photos by Rafa Pérez, Casa de las Letras and Cooperativa Gandesa.

Cooperative Cellar of Pinell de Brai (Terres de l'Ebre, Catalonia). Built in 1922. Photos by Tjerk van der Meulen and Jordi Borràs.

Cellar of the Agrarian Society in Barberà de la Conca. Built in 1919-1921. Photos from Conca de Barberà Turisme and D.O. Conca de Barberà.

There are about 40 buildings in Catalonia who belong to wine workers' cooperatives and that were built around those years in Catalan Modernist style.

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More curves

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Verre et bouteille (1922) by Juan Gris. Private collection.

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honestly my explorations through spotify are so wild sometime. now i've somehow landed on corsican reggae

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Salvador Dalí

Les Diners de Gala

1973

Hardcover cookbook with dust jacket

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i have things i should be doing but instead i am researching medieval folktales and trying to translate a song into middle english and potentially write something brief in the same