Irina Swain Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ Bench in Parc Güell Bench in Parc Güell Parc Güell is home to a very particular bench, created by Gaudi. Parc Güell and the bench are located in Barcelona, Spain Victoria Bishop Camille Kresz 03/01/2017 English, Spanish Document, Still Image, Sound Bench in Parc Güell In Park Güell, designed by Antoni Gaudí, there is a long tile bench which consists of numerous interesting components, one of them being the art form of trencadís. Conrad Kent refers to the bench, in his article From Pleasure Gardens to Places of Dures, as a “brilliantly tiled bench that wraps around the central theater of the park” (Kent 2002: 227). The bench is not tiled like most would think, with the same decorative pattern all the way around, instead it decorated using trencadís. Trencadís is using broken tile from various sources to tile and decorate a specific item, there are different pictures and colors included when using this method. Trencadís is something that Gaudí is known for using, which as Robert Hughes points out in Barcelona the Great Enchantress, by saying that “Gaudí was fascinated by how mosaic fragmentation of trencadís” (Hughes 2004: 140). Gaudí asked people to bring him broken pieces of tile. There is also a deeper meaning to trencadís, as Josep Sobrer discusses in his article Against Barcelona, “in symbolic terms, trencadís exalts the poor, the broken, the outcast” (Sobrer 2002: 212). Gaudí got the tile from everyone who would give him tile, he did not just use tile from the rich and that is one way that Gaudí was able to uplift the poor. Gaudí was able to portray a deeper spiritual meaning and make something look absolutely astounding all while using trencadís, and the bench in Park Güell is a huge highlight of what he did while using this method.  Item changed by user 26 at 2017-03-01 13:15:08.Updated: TypeItem changed by user 26 at 2017-03-01 12:39:46.Created manually by user