Was Gaudí a socialist?

There had always been an aestheticism within Gaudi—his reverence of nature combined with an early drive towards utopian socialism, ongoing vegetarianism and a sometimes dangerous tendency to fast. Though he was a famous architect, he embraced a Franciscan concept of holy poverty.



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Gaudi absorbed this culture and was a committed nationalist as a young man, but in later life he turned to Catholicism and became deeply religious and ascetic.

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Gaudí's Catholic faith intensified during his life and religious images appear in many of his works. This earned him the nickname God's Architect and led to calls for his beatification.

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While Gaudí and Dali were buddies, often bigging up each other's work, Picasso and Gaudí never saw eye to eye. In spite of making art their life's work, Picasso spent a lot of time dissing the Sagrada Família, Gaudí's magnum opus.

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Abstract. Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, Catalan architect and one of the most important visual artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, suffered from a recurrent and often persistent arthritis since he was 6 years old. His diagnosis is uncertain but juvenile idiopathic arthritis is most likely.

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Gaudí's creative genius—and the curves, shapes, and ornamentations it produced—literally changed the face of architecture and building technology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Gaudí recognized the formal order inherent in most architecture before his time—and deliberately turned it upside down.

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It evoked opposite emotions in George Orwell, the British writer, who called the church “one of the most hideous buildings in the world.”

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Gaudi famously said 'my client is in no hurry. ' God, he presumed, has all the time in the world. When it is finally completed it will have taken 10 times longer to build than the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Sagrada Familia has been controversial from the very beginning.

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