Even if you are not a person faith, there are reasons Antoni Gaudí sees as a saint Rowan Moore star-news.press/wp

And You do not understand the processes that people become saints, but the case for the canonization of the Great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, now progresses with the blessing of the Pope, seems strong. He was pious – he tried to take it without food for 40 days in the emulation of Jesus Christ, until the bishop of his friend from the probability of death. An unseen phantasmagoria designed in stone, iron and ceramics could be called a miracle. He even suffered the form of martyrdom, affected by a tram while he was obviously deep in his mind about his most famous work, the Church of Sagrada Família. It is not exactly the same as burning on the share or fuse of arrows or other terrible ends of ancient saints, but has its own importance. The Gaudíina mission was to find a spiritual meaning in the world of transformed industry and machines, of which the fatal tram can be considered a representative.

Nepreclative Gill

One man who was not a saint was an artist Eric Gill, for whom Catholicism was not an obstacle to the rape of his daughters. His work can be seen in many churches and public places, including his 1932 sculpture. Years Prospero and Ariel Above entering the original broadcasting house. BBC, in response to the hammer attack from a white member of the public, now has Put the transparent case over itto protect him from further harm.

This is certainly the worst of both worlds – compromises any integrity there can be sculpture and architecture, while making up the corporation (again) as a defender of child abuse. Removal would be a better option. Although great art can cross the sins of their manufacturers, in Gill, it is too many too close between his evil as a person and his underground shows of young Nudes, for which he sometimes used his children as models. If you know anything about Gill, it’s hard to see this sculpture, a naked boy who stands along the feet of dressed man, as innocent.

Apocalypse when?

It is timely, Veliki Gatsby Being 100 years old to recall the line from Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan. “If we don’t look out,” he says, “White will be completely submerged. All scientific things; it was proven.” This is the position of current believers in the theory of “great replacements” and the writer of the screaming titles in British newspapers in the effect that Muslim extremism is taking over. Which shows that the tendency of privileging is to believe under the death threat is always with us. The fact that, the century, their “scientific” predictions of racial apocalypse have not yet generated, should also give those of the last flakes for a pause for the thought. Of course he won’t.

Call for honesty

“It is not the role of the court,” the Supreme Court of Definition of the “Women” in the Law on the Law on the Public Domain, “except when it is used in the second paragraph, so these words are difficult to miss, but many of the next stream of reporting and comments ignored and acts as if the court It really makes such a wide judgment. In a discussion that affects the lives of many and sometimes vulnerable people, somewhat more sincerity would help.

Rowan Moore is a critic for observer architecture

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