#The Modern Architecture of Cadaqués

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Ode To Salvador Dali -  Federico García Lorca

A rose in the high garden you desire. A wheel in the pure syntax of steel. The mountain stripped bare of Impressionist fog, The grays watching over the last balustrades. The modern painters in their white ateliers clip the square root's sterilized flower. In the waters of the Seine a marble iceberg chills the windows and scatters the ivy. Man treads firmly on the cobbled streets. Crystals hide from the magic of reflections. The Government has closed the perfume stores. The machine perpetuates its binary beat. An absence of forests and screens and brows roams across the roofs of the old houses. The air polishes its prism on the sea and the horizon rises like a great aqueduct. Soldiers who know no wine and no penumbra behead the sirens on the seas of lead. Night, black statue of prudence, holds the moon's round mirror in her hand. A desire for forms and limits overwhelms us. Here comes the man who sees with a yellow ruler. Venus is a white still life and the butterfly collectors run away. * Cadaqués, at the fulcrum of water and hill, lifts flights of stairs and hides seashells. Wooden flutes pacify the air. An ancient woodland god gives the children fruit. Her fishermen sleep dreamless on the sand. On the high sea a rose is their compass. The horizon, virgin of wounded handkerchiefs, links the great crystals of fish and moon. A hard diadem of white brigantines encircles bitter foreheads and hair of sand. The sirens convince, but they don't beguile, and they come if we show a glass of fresh water. * Oh Salvador Dali, of the olive-colored voice! I do not praise your halting adolescent brush or your pigments that flirt with the pigment of your times, but I laud your longing for eternity with limits. Sanitary soul, you live upon new marble. You run from the dark jungle of improbable forms. Your fancy reaches only as far as your hands, and you enjoy the sonnet of the sea in your window. The world is dull penumbra and disorder in the foreground where man is found. But now the stars, concealing landscapes, reveal the perfect schema of their courses. The current of time pools and gains order in the numbered forms of century after century. And conquered Death takes refuge trembling in the tight circle of the present instant. When you take up your palette, a bullet hole in its wing, you call on the light that brings the olive tree to life. The broad light of Minerva, builder of scaffolds, where there is no room for dream or its hazy flower. You call on the old light that stays on the brow, not descending to the mouth or the heart of man. A light feared by the loving vines of Bacchus and the chaotic force of curving water. You do well when you post warning flags along the dark limit that shines in the night. As a painter, you refuse to have your forms softened by the shifting cotton of an unexpected cloud. The fish in the fishbowl and the bird in the cage. You refuse to invent them in the sea or the air. You stylize or copy once you have seen their small, agile bodies with your honest eyes. You love a matter definite and exact, where the toadstool cannot pitch its camp. You love the architecture that builds on the absent and admit the flag simply as a joke. The steel compass tells its short, elastic verse. Unknown clouds rise to deny the sphere exists. The straight line tells of its upward struggle and the learned crystals sing their geometries. * But also the rose of the garden where you live. Always the rose, always, our north and south! Calm and ingathered like an eyeless statue, not knowing the buried struggle it provokes. Pure rose, clean of artifice and rough sketches, opening for us the slender wings of the smile. (Pinned butterfly that ponders its flight.) Rose of balance, with no self-inflicted pains. Always the rose! * Oh Salvador Dali, of the olive-colored voice! I speak of what your person and your paintings tell me. I do not praise your halting adolescent brush, but I sing the steady aim of your arrows. I sing your fair struggle of Catalan lights, your love of what might be made clear. I sing your astronomical and tender heart, a never-wounded deck of French cards. I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords. Not the picture you patiently trace, but the breast of Theresa, she of sleepless skin, the tight-wound curls of Mathilde the ungrateful, our friendship, painted bright as a game board. May fingerprints of blood on gold streak the heart of eternal Catalunya. May stars like falconless fists shine on you, while your painting and your life break into flower. Don't watch the water clock with its membraned wings or the hard scythe of the allegory. Always in the air, dress and undress your brush before the sea peopled with sailors and ships.                        

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José Antonio Coderch. Casa Senillosa. Cadaqués, 1956

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the modern architecture of Cadaqués 1955-71

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The Modern Architecture of Cadaqués 1955-71 - Nacho Alegre, Oscar Tusquets Apartamento, 2020

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10 amazing places to visit in Spain

Europe is a continent remembered for its past full of medieval history, battles and stories of romance and prohibitions, and of course from that indelible past, there are charming places, such as the towns of Spain. Among them we find mountain villages, fishing, with cobbled streets and beautiful picturesque ports, where human warmth is the order of the day, in short, there are for all tastes and styles. How many charming villages will there be in Spain? Countless! It is difficult to make a list of the 10 most beautiful villages in Spain, but it is possible and here we leave our selection.

1. Cudillero, Asturias

First of all, we will see one of the most beautiful villages in northern Spain, located precisely in Asturias. Incredible landscapes, surrounded by some of the best beaches in Spain, rivers, green valleys, waterfalls, vertiginous cliffs, and truly spectacular hills. Cudillero is one of those magical towns in Spain where the fishing environment is still alive, it also highlights the cuisine of the place and the surrounding landscapes forming an incredible panorama. It is certainly one of the most beautiful places to see in the north of Spain. Places in Cudillero Cabo Vidio La Garita Viewpoint Aguilar Beach Quebrantos Beach Playa de las Conchas de Artedo

2. Aínsa, Huesca

In the Sobrarbe region, we can find one of the oldest villages in Spain, specifically in the province of Huesca. Emerged more than a thousand years ago, this Spanish town is one of the few that maintains the ancient architecture that has always characterized it. If we think of medieval villages in Spain, Aínsa is one of them and its charming streets prove it. It is currently a privileged enclave of the road junction, which makes it a strong commercial in its squares. It is one of the villages of Spain that you must make a mandatory stop and fall in love with its corners. Places in Aínsa Main Square Aínsa Sobrarbe Castle Raid Sarratillo Adventure The high Pyrenees Trades and Traditional Arts Museum of Aínsa

3. Santillana del Mar, Cantabria

Its geographical location and the natural environment that surrounds Santillana del Mar make it a nearby place but at the same time, away from the chaos that cities accustom. It is one of the beautiful places in Spain where you can enjoy the landscape, the friendliness of its people, history and its wide cultural agenda. It is one of the towns of Spain that continues to evolve and that has brought a great present, with countless cultural activities in Spain. Today it is one of the towns of Cantabria and Spain with the greatest cultural reference. A town open to all, every day and every hour of the year, a modern and modern town, of leisure, art, tourism and prepared for a really promising future. Places in Santillana del Mar Plaza Mayor de Ramón y Pelayo Barquillero Museum Altamira Museum Museum of the Inquisition Hermitage of Santa Justa

4. Lastres, Asturias

Officially recognized as the most beautiful town in Spain, Lastres has become a symbol for the people of Asturias. Its old town and cobbled streets surrounded by palaces create an environment of charming places. These intermingle with the simple fishermen's houses, but they all have a common denominator: the sea breeze that caresses them constantly and the panoramic views of Mount Sueve and the Cantabrian Sea. As if that were not enough, this town to see in Spain is surrounded by beautiful beaches, is an ideal setting for water sports, and to enjoy cultural beauties such as the Jurassic Museum, which is located nearby. Places in Lastres San Roque viewpoint Church of Santa María de Sabada Clock tower Jurassic Museum of Asturias Greek Beach

5. Cadaqués, Girona

To know the history of Cadaqués it is essential to visit the old town and lose yourself in its labyrinthine streets. It is one of the most beautiful medieval villages in Spain, surrounded by a huge wall that forms the historic center of Cadaqués. It is currently one of the most visited charming villages on the Costa Brava. Its white houses in front of its beautiful coves, the promenade by the sea to the lighthouse of Cala Nans and the picturesque streets are what really identify Cadaqués. We are sure that your visit to one of the best villages in Spain will take your breath away. Places in Cadaqués Cap de Creus National Park Dalí House Museum Cala Nans Lighthouse Church of Santa María Salvador Dalí Statue

6. Peñíscola,  Castellón

Next to the natural park of Sierra de Irta, the historic center of this town is located, on a rock topped by the castle of Peñiscola. It is currently one of the most visited villages in Spain and has many reasons to be. The sea is the protagonist in this picturesque town, perfect for family travel. Peniscola also offers thousands of activities to get to know a little more about what is one of the best villages in Spain. Places in Peñiscola Peñíscola Castle Sierra de Irta Natural Park Monument to Pope Luna Pebret Creek Museum of Magic

7. Luarca, Asturias

Luarca is known as the white town of the Spanish Green Coast. Located just 90 kilometers from Gijón, it is another of the villages of Asturias that still maintains its fishing environment. It is also recognized for its large and picturesque houses, it's Mesa de Maleantes and the spectacular panoramic views from its cemetery. It also has many museums to visit, but also with numerous bars and maritime activities. Luarca is a Spanish town that adapts to all types of tourists and a perfect corner to see in Asturias. Places in Luarca Luarca Cemetery Chapel of the Watchtower and Lighthouse Panrico Gardens Otur Beach Portizuelo Beach

8. Frigiliana,  Malaga

In the region of Axarquía in Frigiliana. Its old town of Arab origins is one of the best-preserved in all of Spain. The whitewashed walls, its narrow streets, and the stairs that run through the Barriberto neighborhood place it on this list of the most beautiful villages in Spain. As a result, it is one of the beautiful villages of Malaga that meets all the requirements to be visited. Frigiliana offers a unique natural and architectural heritage, as well as other attractions and requirements, such as the hotel, festive, leisure and cultural offer. Places in Frigiliana Old Fountain Chillar River Walk San Antonio Church Archaeological Museum of Frigiliana Lizar Castle

9. Grazalema,  Cádiz

In the heart of the Sierra de Grazalema is one of the best villages in Spain, its urban center was declared a Historic Site, and is the typical popular architecture that blends perfectly with monumental wealth. It is one of the most beautiful villages in Cadiz and its heritage jewel is the Baroque Church of Our Lady of the Aurora. Famous for the traditional blankets of Grazalema and also for other crafts of the Textile Crafts Museum. A destination with a strong religious belief to see in Cadiz, but that is still fun and entertaining for tourists who visit it. Places in Grazalema Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park Cabrero Falls Route Grazalema textile crafts El Torreon Grazalema viewpoint

10. Bárcena Mayor, Cantabria

The only town included in the Saja Besaya Natural Park is Bárcena Mayor, located in a small valley of the Argoza River. Of all the towns of Spain, it is the only one that allows experiencing the living conditions of past times, and the evolution of the constructions. All this within a wonderful natural environment, abundant in forest and water currents that finally transform it into one of the best places to visit in Spain. Bárcena Mayor is organized in a single neighborhood with an alveolar structure arranged in a very particular way between streets and squares. Most notable is that they maintain the architecture that characterizes it and includes it among the most beautiful villages in Spain. Places in Bárcena Mayor Santa Maria church Argoza River Saja-Besaya Natural Park Walk its lovely streets See the bridges of the town Read the full article

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Where 8 Famous Artists Loved to Go on Vacation

La maison-musée Salvador Dali, Spain. Photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via Flickr.

Science has spoken: Vacations are good for creativity. Brain imaging reveals that relaxing and letting your mind wander actually triggers alpha waves in the brain, a vital ingredient for innovative thoughts. Positive emotions like joy and contentment—often sparked by a good vacation—foster outside-the-box thinking and inventiveness.

Artists are no exception to these rules. For the likes of Paul Klee and Georgia O’Keeffe, holiday getaways served as the catalyst for major breakthroughs in style and subject. For Pablo Picasso and Berthe Morisot, they were periods of extreme productivity.

But where, you might wonder, did they actually go? Overwhelmingly, to the beach—along the Côte d’Azur, the Costa Brava, Cape Cod, and even Hawaii. From Massachusetts to Tunisia, here are the favorite vacation spots that influenced eight famous artists.

Pablo Picasso

Juan-les-Pins, France

Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot on holidays, 1949. Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images.

PabloPicasso first ventured to the French seaside town of Juan-les-Pins in the summer of 1920, accompanied by his then-wife, Olga. Over the following years, the Spanish painter continued to vacation along the Côte d’Azur (though he eventually traveled there with another lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter). This summer tradition was stalled by the start of World War II, however.

Picasso wouldn’t return until 1946, the year he left his most lasting mark on the region. For two months that fall, he took up residence with his new lover, Françoise Gilot, in the tiny village of Golfe-Juan. Their days were spent lounging on picturesque beaches; at night, Picasso retreated to a makeshift studio in the medieval Château Grimaldi in nearby Antibes. He worked at a furious pace, producing 23 paintings and 44 drawings in total—the entirety of which he donated to the château, making it the first museum dedicated to the artist.

Berthe Morisot

Fécamp, France

Berthe Morisot, Sur la Plage, 1873. Courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Each summer, the Impressionists flocked to northern France, where the likes of Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro captured the cliffs, beaches, and Gothic cathedrals dotting the region. Berthe Morisot was no exception. For her (and her sister Edna), the summer holiday was an excuse to trade Parisian social obligations for plein air painting. One year, they hiked through the Pyrenees; the next, they were lured by a fellow painter to set up shop in a village along the Oise River.

One of the family’s favorite vacation spots was Fécamp, a beach town in Normandy. Morisot memorialized the beach of Les Petites Dalles in an 1873 painting, capturing vacationing figures as they strolled along the boardwalk. The next summer at Fécamp would be a significant one for the painter’s personal life: Édouard Manet’s brother, Eugène, proposed to Morisot as the two painted side-by-side at a naval construction site.

Georgia O’Keeffe

Hawaii, United States

Georgia O'Keefe in Hawaii, 1939. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

In 1938, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (today known as Dole) offered GeorgiaO’Keeffe an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii. In return, she was asked to produce two paintings for use in an advertising campaign. Lured in part by the slick travel brochures she’d been sent, the artist eventually accepted the company’s invitation; she arrived in Honolulu on February 8, 1939. Hawaii introduced O’Keeffe to a host of new experiences: dining on raw fish, donning thonged sandals, strolling along black-sand beaches. By the end of her nine-week trip, she was thoroughly enchanted by the islands (if not by the pineapple she was supposed to be painting—the company was aghast to find she had returned to the U.S. with a number of canvases, none of which depicted that particular fruit).

“I have always intended to return,” O’Keeffe later wrote to her friend Ansel Adams. “I often think of that trip at Yosemite [with you] as one of the best things I have done—but Hawaii was another.” She would visit twice more: In 1959, she stayed in Honolulu en route to southeast Asia, and in 1982, at 94 years old, she returned to Häna.

Gustav Klimt

Lake Attersee, Austria

Gustav Klimt with his friends at the Attersee lake, 1907. Photo by Imagno/Getty Images.

Although Gustav Klimt is best known for his glimmering portraits of Viennese high society, his oeuvre also includes approximately 50 known landscapes. A vast majority of these (more than 45, in fact) were painted along Lake Attersee, his summer retreat for more than 15 years. “It is terrible, awful here in Vienna,” Klimt once complained to a friend. “Everything parched, hot, dreadful, all this work on top of it, the ‘bustle’—I long to be gone like never before.” So, in the tradition of sommerfrische—established in the 19th century by Habsburg emperors taking advantage of a newly constructed railway system—the artist traded the sweltering city for the lake-filled Austrian countryside.

There, he donned flowing, floor-length robes and spent his days trekking through the foothills or rowing on the lake. The locals dubbed him “Wood Goblin,” chuckling as he towed his painting supplies from one landscape to the next.

Salvador Dalí

Cadaqués, Spain

Salvador Dali. Photo by GAMMA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, along Spain’s Costa Brava, and spent his childhood holidays in the nearby fishing village of Cadaqués. Some of his earliest paintings—landscapes in the style of the Impressionists—capture the olive groves, white-walled buildings, and glittering waters of the picturesque seaside town.

It was there, during a 1929 stay at his family’s vacation home, that the 25-year-old Dalí met Gala—the woman who would become his wife and lifelong love. The couple soon settled there permanently, purchasing a fisherman’s cottage slightly north of the town that boasted an idyllic view of the Mediterranean. The Surrealist adored the village for its isolated location and its quality of light; he dubbed it “the best place in the world.”

Helen Frankenthaler

Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States

Cape Cod National Seashore, 2014. Photo via Flickr.

Helen Frankenthaler first visited Provincetown in 1950, at age 21, studying for three weeks under Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann. When she returned a decade later, she herself was an established AbEx artist whose works had been acquired by the likes of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney. She was also married to fellow painter Robert Motherwell, who had suggested the trip to Cape Cod in the first place.

From 1960 to 1969, the couple decamped to Provincetown each summer, trading the bustle of New York City for the quiet of their beach-side studios. Frankenthaler loved to swim, usually twice a day: once in the morning, before settling in to paint around 9 a.m., and then after lunch. “I understand how enamored she would have been of Provincetown, being near like-minded people—and also its sheer physical beauty,” recalled Motherwell’s daughter Lise, who spent her childhood summers in Provincetown with the couple. “It must have fed her artistic imagination unbelievably.”

Edward Hopper

Truro, Cape Cod

Cape Cod Evening, 1939. Edward Hopper National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Edward Hopper owed his favorite vacation spot—and, perhaps, his career—to his wife, Josephine. A painter herself, she introduced her husband to Cape Cod in 1930. The couple rented homes there for a few years before Hopper decided to build a house in the quiet town of Truro. He adored the house and its light-filled studio overlooking the bay, spending almost half of his 84 summers there. In all, he painted more than 100 works of the Cape.

“In the early years he was prolific, he loved the Cape and the beautiful light, the beautiful vernacular architecture,” art historian Gail Levin said. “He doesn’t really paint many pictures of rolling sand dunes. He was attracted to the architecture.”

Paul Klee

Tunisia

Temple Gardens, 1920. Paul Klee The Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of the most storied episodes in Paul Klee’s young life occurred during a vacation to Tunisia in 1914. Accompanied by fellow painters August Macke and Louis Moilliet, he spent two weeks traveling across the country, capturing what he saw in sketches and vibrant watercolors. At times, Klee found the foreign landscapes utterly arresting; in St. Germain, he was captivated by the full moon that hung over the city on Easter Sunday. “The evening is deep inside me forever,” he wrote in his journals. “Many a blond, northern moon rise, like a muted reflection, will softly remind me.”

During a visit to the city of Kairouan, Klee experienced a major artistic breakthrough. Already assured in his skill as a draftsman, he suddenly felt as though he understood color, too. “Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it,” he famously wrote. “That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.” Although he never returned to Tunisia, he continued to set down images from that trip for years to come.

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