Favourite Work
My Spanish
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THE CITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Santiago Calatrava
Its location is excellent, a privileged place: the old Turias riverbed, a completely
open area. It is an interesting cultural leisure offer that turns this architectural
work into a center for culture and leisure. This impressive architecture work
becomes a place to learn and have fun in a participative way.
In this project we highlight The Sciences Museum because it is an instrument for
education that through varied activities reactivates the critical capacity of its
visitors and informs about the evolution of life and technological and scientific
developments in a didactic and interactive way. This museum supports the
different schools in their educational activities and that keeps it alive.
We also highlight the L'Umbracle Promenade, where nature, the sky and the water
form an architectural whole of great beauty.
In our opinion, this architectural work is a landscape and monument symbol for the
city of Valencia.
Made up of: L'Hemisfric, The
Sciences Museum, L'Umbracle, The
Oceanographic, The Bridge of l'Assut
de l'Or and The gora.
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Its construction began with a neo-gothic style but when Gaud took on the project, its
style was completely changed. As he usually worked, from general outlines of the
building, he improvised its construction as the work moved forward. He took on the
project with the young age of 31 and he devoted the rest of his life to it.
One of his most innovative ideas was the design of the high round conical towers whose
peaks stick out above the portals being narrower at their highest point. He designed
them with a parabolic torsion giving the whole facade an upward tendency with many
windows that perforate the tower in spiral shape.
Gaud died in 1926; only one tower had been built. From the project of the building
there were only some plans and a plaster model quite damaged during the Spanish Civil
War.
The church was consecrated and acknowledged as minor basilica on the 7th of
November 2010 by the Pope Benedicto XVI.
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THE SAGRADA FAMILIA Antonio Gaud
The Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, known as
The Sagrada Familia, is a large catholic basilica of
Barcelona, designed by the Spanish architect
Antoni Gaud. Its construction began in 1882 and it
is ongoing. It is the masterpiece of Gaud and the
greatest exponent of Catalonian modernist
architecture.
This is the visible part of the work that I chose but I am very interested in the
determined performance of this rationalist architect, with numerous buildings with a
rationalist style in the city. In my opinion, this work and the other ones reflect that his
artistic career was braked by the end of the Civil War. Due to his large academic
education he adapted to the imposed academicist and neo-imperialist criteria (Town
Halls Square), but everytime he could, as in this work, he followed his convictions of
modernity. From the 50s his few turns to modernity where accepted given his artistic
relevance and a slight political openness. Later on, during the 60s, when the country
wanted to be seen as immersed in a period of modernity and development, this
architect was able to create excellent works of rationalist modernism.
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MUSIC BANDSTAND Miguel Lpez Gonzlez
This small bandstand built in 1954 and designed
by the architect from Alicante Miguel Lpez, is
located in the Alicantes Promenade.
Technically it is a construction made of
reinforced concrete that gives a slender
appearance, without columns, to a modern
design. Aesthetics and acoustic properties
achieve perfect harmony with the
environment.
It is made up of a series of practical disciplines:
BALLET
To have a complete education as a dancer in any discipline
it is necessary to study ballet to adquire the essential
techniques.
CASTANETS
As ultimate Spanish cultural patrimony, castanets
represent a very important part of the Spanish music and
dance.
CLASSICAL SPANISH
It is the most sophisticated way of dance with music styles
like Falla, Albniz, Granados, Turna. His aesthetics remind
us the flamenco dance and folklore. BOLERAS SCHOOL
It studies the Spanish dance of the 18th century. Known as Goyescas, it is danced with
costumes of the time of the painter Goya.
FLAMENCO
It is the most famous Spanish dance, the most universal given its wide spreading.
FOLKLORE
Spain is one of the richest countries in Folklore variety. Every region has its typical
dances with centuries of antiquity, a real regional cultural expression.
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S P A N I S H D A N C E
White Darkness is a choreography that fascinates and produces
the same impression during the years. It might be one of the
masterpieces of Nacho Duato and it is essential in his wide
creative repertoire. It has become richer with the time that has
transformed it into a classic; a perfect combination of light and
shadow.
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WHITE DARKNESS Nacho Duato
The inspiration of his creator was an open meditation about the world of drugs. It is not a
judgement of values but an invitation to think about a present, harmful and many times
controversial subject. It is about the effect that drugs may cause in our social behaviour, our
ability to communicate with others and in our lives in general. On the stage, the
choreographer shows how drugs dominate the drug addicts to the point that they become a
puppet, a marionette that under its influence narrows their universe to the extreme. All
this, expressed through dance, mostly in couples, becomes pure poetry in movement.
It tells a story in which the public is able to understand the initial emotional unbalance of
the main character who seeks a way out in a love relationship with a person that will lead
her to disaster. This person becomes a Prince of Darkness; owner and lord of a particular
world through the white dust. Likewise, the adequate use of plastic elements to visualize
drugs through the rain of this substance makes a contrast with the black color of the stage
and gives sense to the title: White Darkness.
One of the most beautiful
sculptures of Eusebio
Sempere is Estrella, although it
is also known with the name of
Estrella varada (Rod Star),
located in the city of Alicante.
He uses a regular
dodecahedron from which
chroming steel rods of 3cm
diameter come out. The rods of
the superior part are longer.
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E S T R E L L A (S T A R) Eusebio Sempere
The rods gather in a revolving axis that coincides with one of the
rotation axis of the dodecahedron that unites two opposed faces.
The sculpture was made in chroming steel in 1978.
I have chosen this work because the composer received with it
his first award and that was what motivated him to devote
himself completely to music and to continue obtaining success
and become a renowned composer.
In 1903, with the age of 17, scar Espl studied in Barcelona
Industrial Engineering and also Arts, receiving harmony lessons
from Snchez Gavagan, who was then in 1904 director of the Music Conservatory of the Institute of Barcelona.
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SUITE LEVANTINA scar Espl
During his period of education as engineer he composed his famous Suite in A flat, he
presented it to the International Contest of the National Gesellschaft Die Musik of
Vienna and won the First Award, triumphing over numerous European scores and
receiving 3.000 marks; Richard Strauss and Camille Saint-Sans were members of the
jury. Due to this success of great importance for Spain and as an iniciative of Gabriel
Mir his spiritual brother who would name him Walter Starkie the Town Hall of
Alicante embraced the musician honoring him with celebrations on the 29th of January
1911. Then, just about to finish his studies of Engineering, he decided to devote
himself completely to music because music was stronger in me that the other two
studies, words of the musician.
ASDF
In this work he paints his wife, Clotilde Garcia, holding a ladys umbrella and his older daughter,
Maria Clotilde having a walk by the beach of Valencia at sunset, with the sea breeze moving their
filmy dresses in a concept of movement that has a lot to do with the pararell position of the two
women and the movement in the air of the gauzes, the ladys umbrella and the water of the sea.
The contrast of colours make the rest and achieve a luminosity effect that gathers the elegance
of the scene with an unquestionable visual impact.
In the paintings composition he eliminates the horizon line and creates water and sand through
long blue, mauve and turquoise-green brushstrokes. The breeze that ca
