If you’ve seen Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia only once, then
it wasn’t enough. That was my conclusion as I savored the amazingly detailed drawings
in Drawing Around Sagrada Familia
by urban sketcher and blogger Nina Johansson. I spent the whole
day at Gaudi’s masterpiece cathedral, exploring both the outside and inside
with sheer awe and wonder, and Johansson’s art helped me relive that
experience. Yet with each beautifully rendered drawing, I kept wondering how I
could have missed this detail or that. She has carefully observed subtle
nuances as well as the grand picture. Unlike photographs, Johansson’s drawings
convey not only what is seen but what is felt by the thousands of tourists who
pass through the Sagrada Familia daily. More important, the drawings convey
what Johansson herself felt as she transferred keen observations to her
sketchbook with intelligence, reverence and humor.
(This book review also appears on Amazon.com.)
I love seeing books with paintings and sketches of someplace I've visited. You always get a new insight into the place, and then find that one that you say to yourself, "Where was that?" lol
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