Barcelona Orange View - Sagrada Familia view from Park Guell - abstract palette knife oil painting

by Mona Edulesco

Original - Sold

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20.000 x 20.000 x 2.000 cm.

Title

Barcelona Orange View - Sagrada Familia view from Park Guell - abstract palette knife oil painting

Artist

Mona Edulesco

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

"Barcelona Orange View - Sagrada Familia view from Park Guell" by Mona Edulesco.
Textural impressionist impasto palette knife oil painting on stretched canvas 20x20cm (8x8 inches).

The original has been sold to a collector from San Jose, CA - United States.

This painting captures a panoramic view of Barcelona seen from the heights of Park Guell, with the silhouette of Sagrada Família profiled on a phantasmagoric orange sunrise... I was inspired to paint this scene during my last visit in Barcelona, earlier this summer.
This painting is part of my "Stylized City Views" series.

I made a Time Lapse video for this painting's process, you can watch it on my Facebook page, at https://www.facebook.com/monaedulescoart
/videos/2004249099627613/
(copy and paste the link into your browser)

I have always loved to approach my urban paintings in a myriad of ways. I enjoy stylizing architectural forms in various manners. This has always been one of my goals, even a preoccupation from the time I was studying at the school of architecture until the present. The versatility of oil paint along with my prototypic work with palette knives allows me to play with the urban forms abstracting the city in an unconstrained manner.

Describing Sagrada Familia, art critic Rainer Zerbst said, "It is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art" and Paul Goldberger called it, "The most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages."

The Basilica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia (Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family) is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain), designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and in November 2010 Pope Benedict XVI consecrated and proclaimed it a minor basilica, as distinct from a cathedral, which must be the seat of a bishop.
Construction of Sagrada Familia had commenced in 1882 and Gaudi became involved in 1883, taking over the project and transforming it with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudi devoted his last years to the project, and at the time of his death at age 73 in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete. Sagrada Familia's construction progressed slowly, as it relied on private donations and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War, only to resume intermittent progress in the 1950s. Construction passed the midpoint in 2010 with some of the project's greatest challenges remaining and an anticipated completion date of 2026, the centenary of Gaudi's death. (source: Wikipedia)

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