Josep Maria Jujol

...one of the most subtle, original, unprejudiced and provocative personalities of contemporary art.Carlos Flores

Some of the Modernistas who collaborated with Gaudí were astonishing talents in their own right, especially Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert (1879–1949). Born in Tarragona, he loved to draw, and even as a child his use of form and colour attracted attention. He went on to study architecture in Barcelona where he met Domènech i Montaner.

Jujols was a great master of colour, imagination, invention, and good humour, who lightened the work of Gaudí — the roof and ceramic skin on the Casa Batlló; the medallions of broken tiles, plates, doll's heads, bottles and everything except the kitchen sink of the Sala Hipóstila and splendid serpentine bench at the Park Güell are all his and make him one of the unheralded founders of collagea and the objets trouvés movement. He designed the sublime marine-themed balconies of La Pedrera and worked on the Sagrada Família.