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Gaudí's Creations
The architect's work is an earthy appeal to sinewy movement, but often with a dream-
like or surreal quality. The private apartment house Casa Batlló is a fine example in
which all appears a riot of the unnaturally natural - or the naturally unnatural. Not only
are straight lines eliminated, but the lines between real and unreal, sober and dream-
drunk, good sense and play are all blurred. Depending on how you look at the facade,
you might see St George (one of Barcelona's patron saints) defeating a dragon, a mag-
nificent and shimmering fish (a symbol of Mediterranean peoples), or elements of an
effusive Carnaval parade.
Gaudí seems to have particularly enjoyed himself with rooftops. At Palau Gu
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ell he
created all sorts of fantastical, multicoloured tile figures as chimney pots, resembling
