Modernism was a cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Catalonia, it had a significant influence on architecture and decorative art styles. Some key influences and examples included French impressionist paintings found at Roquetaillade Castle, exhibitions by Rusiñol and Ramon-Casas at Barcelona's Sala Parés, and Gaudí's highly original works like Sagrada Família, Parc Güell, and Casa Milà that blended Gothic, Islamic, and natural forms. The movement aimed to completely renovate Catalan cultural life through innovative works across many artistic fields.

1. By Rut Mensa, Elena Costa and Lluís Casellas

2. What’s Modernism?
 Modernism was a cultural movement occurred in West
at the end of nineteenth and at the beginning of the
twentieth century. In art, although in Catalonia has a
much broader sense, took effect especially in
architecture and decorative art.

3. Where was Modernism found?
 It’s considered that in the firsts modernisms paintings
are founded in Roquetaillade Castle, in France.

4. Modernism Types
 The Avenç magazine, it’s the most influential platform as it
welcomes and encourages all initiatives that are innovative.
Besides the magazine, Rusiñol and Ramon-Casas
exhibitions-direct heirs of the French impressionists
painters, in the Sala Parés in Barcelona, Sitges Modernist
parties, and Maragall articles on Barcelona and Raimon
Casellas journal on “La Vanguardia testify to the arrival of a
movement that aims to completely renovate the Catalan
cultural life and it infiltrates in every kind artistic
demonstration: architects like Gaudí, Domènech i
Montaner i Puig i Cadafalch are the leaders in the
reviewing proposals architectural.

5. Modernism examples
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6. Gaudí’s Art
 Gaudí’s art uses ,the Muslim art and Gothic and
Baroque styles, following the fashion of this historical
time , with an effort to reach the historical styles and
get their own structural and plastic shapes. He
invented a considerable quantity of mechanisms,
systems and arquitectural elements, showing a
arquitectural language very constructive sensible, with
the predominance of straight line on the curve.

7. Influences to the Moorish Art
 You can see the historical influences in his works, as
the Moorish art. The Moorish art is stressed because of
its interior decoration where you can see the sky, to
create a mystery space.

8. Some of Gaudí’s works
 Palau Episcopal d’Astorga

9. Some of Gaudí’s works
 Sagrada Família

10. Some of Gaudí’s works
 Parc Güell

11. Some of Gaudí’s works
 Pedrera