Margaret and Frances Macdonald and their Glasgow School of Art classmates Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Harold MacNair were Art Nouveau's Glasgow Four.
The Wassail (detail) 1900. One of the three panels for the ladies Luncheon Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms. Oil painted gesso on hessian and scrim, set with twine, glass beads, thread, mother-of-pearl, and tin leaf, panel. From the collection of Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Glasgow
Margaret MacDonald (1864-1933) or Frances MacDonald (1873-1921) Design for a Mirror Frame, c1896 Black and red crayon and watercolour on paper.
FRANCES MacNAIR: A POND: 1894 A Pond is one of the items that first prompted some negative Glasgow critics to label Frances and Margaret MacDonald, two sisters and members with their respective hus…
Happy Thanksgiving, to those of you celebrating today! We've got works by artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. I love the expression on her face in this photograph: Photographed by Annan, c. 1906 She lived from 1864-1933 and was married to architect/designer/artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who said of his wife, "I have talent. She has genius." Margaret did striking gesso panels. Gesso is a thick, traditionally white fluid made of a mixture of plaster or chalk and glue. It is usually used to prepare a canvas to be painted, but obviously, it has other uses as well. Cheap Joe's Art Stuff says: "If you are not comfortable with using gesso, then you need to change that. Gesso is so much more than a surface preparation or primer for your paintings. It is a tool for creating some really great art. Did you know that you can mix gesso with paint to create colored gesso for creating tinted grounds? You can also use gesso mixed with paint to cover up mistakes, even big mistakes. A few coats of gesso can turn even the most mediocre painting surface into a heavenly place to paint. If you enjoy painting on a rough surface, you can add texturing materials to your gesso or paint gesso right over a surface with great big “tooth”. For a smoother surface to create your art on, add several coats. You can even sand your layers once they dry to make a canvas that is like painting on fine porcelain." "The Four Queens": Queen of Spades, 1909 by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh from the Hunterian Art Gallery A detail from Opera of the Sea by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh Artists Dai and Jenny Vaughan create gesso panels inspired by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. Here are two details from their interpretation of Margaret's original gesso panel, "Willow Wood," which is in Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow. details from Homage to Willow Wood by Vaughan Art Works And here's one by Margaret's sister, Frances: A Paradox, 1905 by Frances Macdonald McNair Links: ~ About "The Four" (Margaret, Rennie, Margaret's sister Frances and her husband Herbert McNair) ~ Rennie Mackintosh Society article about gesso. ~ BBC article about a work by Margaret that brought a record price for Scottish art. ~ Two recipes for making gesso
Junirosen - Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh 1898
FRANCES MacNAIR: A POND: 1894 A Pond is one of the items that first prompted some negative Glasgow critics to label Frances and Margaret MacDonald, two sisters and members with their respective hus…
The first artist in my Authors & Artists series is Frances Macdonald McNair (1873-1921). She was born in England and attended the prestigious Glasgow School of Art with her sister, Margaret. Frances and Margaret became part of a creative collective known as The Glasgow Four together wi
Margaret and Frances Macdonald and their Glasgow School of Art classmates Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Harold MacNair were Art Nouveau's Glasgow Four.
Margaret and Francis Macdonald - Photo of Margaret and Francis taken by Charles Mackintosh 1894 These two remarkable sisters were highly regarded artists of their day and were the bright young things of their time
Junio de 2018: leo una triste noticia y veo imágenes terribles: por segunda vez, el fuego destruye la Glasgow School of Art, (la Escuela de Arte de Glasgow), la obra maestra del arquitecto, diseñ…
In order to creatively explore notions of fashion, style, and artistic identity, students in the ‘Artistic Dress’ elective course in Year 3 of the Forum for Critical Enquiry have arranged tableaux vivants throughout the Mackintosh Building. These ‘living pictures’ show the students’ own research into dress history, displaying styles that either inspired or expressed trends […]
Musings on myth and mythic arts.
The Art Nouveau movement was defined by female artists (painters, designers, and more) – we're just not aware of them.
We could have tried the one-day £12 Charles Rennie Mackintosh Trail Ticket. Not only does it give you unlimited travel on the city’s subway and First bus services in Greater Glasgow but it also includes entry to the main Mackintosh attractions. If you limit your visits to The Glasgow School of Art and The Hill House, which will already take you a lot of time, this ticket will be well worth the purchase, for an adult entry to the School of Art will cost you £ 6.50 and one to the Hill House £8
FRANCES MacNAIR: A POND: 1894 A Pond is one of the items that first prompted some negative Glasgow critics to label Frances and Margaret MacDonald, two sisters and members with their respective hus…
Frances Macdonald, like her sister Margaret, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair (whom she married in 1899), belonged to the group known as 'The Four' which pioneered the Glasgow Style. The Group of Four www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/Mackintosh/grou pfour.html Girl In…
