{"id":156213,"date":"2025-06-19T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/?p=156213"},"modified":"2025-06-21T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:39:10","slug":"did-you-know-a-joke-by-gaudi-about-the-light-of-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/en\/did-you-know-a-joke-by-gaudi-about-the-light-of-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know? Gaud\u00ed&#8217;s Mediterranean sense of humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">By: Ferran Garc\u00e9s<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gaud\u00ed was born in June, on the 25th of 1852, and died in the same month, on the 10th of 1926. In other words, the Mediterranean architect was born and died halfway between the summer solstice, the day with the most light of the year. It is, therefore, a good moment to remember the importance of light in Gaud\u00ed\u2019s work.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-156201\" src=\"https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bellesguard-0844-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bellesguard-0844-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bellesguard-0844-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bellesguard-0844-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bellesguard-0844-1536x985.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bellesguard-0844-2048x1313.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bellesguard-0844-600x385.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>However, it is not just any light. He himself made sure to specify which kind on various occasions. The list of quotes is long, but they can all be summed up in one word: Mediterranean. To illustrate this, today we\u2019ll comment on a joke by Gaud\u00ed that is impossible to understand without considering the importance of Mediterranean light for him.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Clarity vs. Fog\u2026<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:246,&quot;335559739&quot;:246,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mediterranean light must have been a recurring topic in conversations with Gaud\u00ed, as different sources mention it (see: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/en\/you-know-what-the-light-the-light-of-the-mediterranean\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Light, the Light of the Mediterranean<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">). As Joan Berg\u00f3s, a biographer of Gaud\u00ed who knew him personally, recalls:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cHe liked to contrast the clarity of Mediterranean philosophers with the fog of the northerners.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\"> (1) <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As an example:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cDescartes\u2019 fundamental statement loses clarity as it moves northward; the syllogism <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I doubt, therefore I exist<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> is the most illogical one can conceive; the logical one is <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I doubt, therefore I am ignorant<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Mediterranean philosophers only say <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, because that alone already indicates existence. This darkness reaches its peak with Kant (who was from K\u00f6nigsberg, near Russia) and is the same darkness of the nihilists and Bolsheviks.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Isidre Puig-Boada, another biographer and contemporary of Gaud\u00ed, recalls these other phrases:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cVirtue lies in the middle point; Mediterranean means in the middle of the earth. On its shores of medium light and at 45 degrees, which is the light that best defines bodies and reveals their form, is where the great artistic cultures have flourished, due to this balance of light: neither too much nor too little.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\"> (2)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cArt, then, is not from the North; science is theirs. Architecture is Mediterranean.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\"> (3)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Brief Musical Context<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:246,&quot;335559739&quot;:246,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To understand the joke\u2014or anecdote\u2014we must also briefly mention Llu\u00eds Millet, the person who tells it. He was one of Gaud\u00ed\u2019s closest friends and a major public figure in the music scene of Barcelona (see: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/en\/music-in-the-time-of-gaudi-a-visit-to-the-palau-de-la-musica-catalana\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Music II<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">). Due to his role as founder and director of the Orfe\u00f3 Catal\u00e0 and the Palau de la M\u00fasica Catalana, he organized visits to Barcelona by major European musical personalities. Gaud\u00ed was always invited to those concerts, and the joke we refer to today took place during one of those invitations. The person mentioned in the anecdote is Albert Schweitzer, theologian, doctor, and musician, born in Alsace, then part of the German Empire.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the modernist era, almost everyone had a great passion for Germanic music, especially that of Wagner. However, Gaud\u00ed seemed to prefer Catalan folk music and Gregorian chant, the other musical pillars of his time (see: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bellesguardgaudi.com\/en\/music-in-the-time-of-gaudi-a-return-to-the-origins\/\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Music III<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">). At least, that\u2019s what the following anecdote, collected by Llu\u00eds Millet in 1926 shortly after Gaud\u00ed\u2019s burial, seems to express.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\"> (4)<\/span><\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Gaud\u00ed\u2019s Joke<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:246,&quot;335559739&quot;:246,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWhen we first performed Bach\u2019s <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">St. Matthew Passion<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> at the Orfe\u00f3 Catal\u00e0, I took Dr. Schweitzer to the Sagrada Fam\u00edlia, and he was amazed by the work, showing great interest in the author, a man so small in stature and of such prodigious genius.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Schweitzer, this also extraordinary personality, great apostle of the sublime Cantor of Leipzig, wanted to know Gaud\u00ed\u2019s opinion on the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">St. Matthew Passion<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u2014Have you heard it? \u2014he asked\u2014. What did you think?<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Gaud\u00ed was momentarily surprised and then replied:<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u2014I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d like it so much\u2026 but \u2014he added with a sly smile\u2014 I think these guys \u2014pointing at me\u2014 have fixed it up a bit.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> [\u2026]<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Bach\u2019s <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Passion<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> had moved him with its deep devotion and commanding power, but it was Germanic art, and he saw it as distant from Mediterranean light. He sought to defend his creed through the interpretation given by the local element, born under the luminous sea that surrounds us. Needless to say, his paradoxical response made us laugh.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:210,&quot;335559739&quot;:210,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Notes<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:246,&quot;335559739&quot;:246,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(1) Berg\u00f3s i Mass\u00f3, Joan<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (2011). <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gaud\u00ed. L\u2019home i l\u2019obra<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Lunwerg, Barcelona, p. 30. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(2) Puig-Boada, Isidre<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (1980). <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">El pensament de Gaud\u00ed. Compilaci\u00f3 de textos i comentaris<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Barcelona: Publicacions del Col\u00b7legi d\u2019Arquitectes de Catalunya, p. 98. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(3) Ibidem<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, pp. 118\u2013120. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(4) Casas\u00fas, Josep Maria<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (10\/06\/2016). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ara.cat\/opinio\/antoni-gaudi1291619534.html\">Antoni Gaud\u00ed<\/a>\u201d. <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Diari Ara<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ferran Garc\u00e9s\u00a0 Gaud\u00ed was born in June, on the 25th of 1852, and died in the same month, on the 10th of 1926. 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