La Familia /Barcelona                   Gaudi      photo Elizabeth Gordon

Art is a human activity which has as its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Leo Tolstoy(click)


It might seem odd to pair a photograph of Gaudi's(click)Church Architecture with Leo Tolstoy, but it tells a story about the highest and the best of ourselves. Gaudi worked a good bit of his later life on the designs and construction of La Sagrada Familia,(click) he actually died while begging money for the continuation of the building.  When I visited in the early 2000's it was estimated the workers working today on the cathedral would not live to see it finished in their life time.  Gaudi had passion and talent, but people recognized that what he had started was so brilliant and exceptional it was worth building on another hundred years!