The Glasgow Four
The Glasgow four consisted of four Scotish Stylist's:
These Scotish artists mentioned above met at Glasgow School of Art and began exploring their different approaches of art together. The formed an informal creative alliance.
They were all influenced by the works of Aubrey Beardsley And Jan Toorop. The four artists created a unique style of originality and symbolic complexity. They come up with a geometric style that was geometrically controlled almost perfect and aligned, with elements of a strong rectilinear structure.
Figure 1: Mackintosh, C, R, The Scottish Musical Review, 1897, Poster.
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/mackintosh/23.html
Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the above image he used geometric symmetry. Most of his work including the Glasgow Four contained some sort of geometric structure. From the above image, it is like the image is symmetrical, to form the feeling that one-half is the same as the other, the use of lines are profoundly used like the images in Art Nouveau artist Aubrey Beardsley.
The Glasgow Four movement was influenced by motifs. A motif is a decoration on an image that repeats itself to for sort of a pattern. Therefore The Scottish Musical Review has the same geometrical shapes and line that create a pattern if the image may be separated in the middle.
The Glasgow Four movement was distinguished by symbolic imagery and stylised form, hence the above image made by Mackintosh is stylised in a very simple way through the use of lines, flat colour and flat textures.
Flat planes of colour were implemented by the use of bold simple lines. This movement fused organic and geometric shapes. Verticality and integration of flowing curves with rectangular structure were also used. Most Glasgow Four posters have religious concepts to them because Margaret Macdonald and Frances Macdonald were sisters that held strong religious beliefs and embraced symbols and mystical ideas. Femininity, a fairytale fantasy and a melancholy disquietude, colours that were used were washed up and dull.
Figure 2: Macdonald, M, THE GYPSY, 1933, Pencil and ink on brown tracing paper.
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch_Mackintosh/DetailedResults.fwx?SearchTerm=41523&reqMethod=Link
Figure 3: Tandy, S, Ae Fond Kiss, Print.
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The above image is a contemporary example of Magaret Macdonald's work. Sheila's work Ae Fond Kiss has the same characteristics as the GYPSY, the fusing of curvilinear and straight lines, the use of geometric and organic shapes. In this image the idea of romance it depicted rather than depicting religious women like the Glasgow sisters did. The lines used to merge the two characters together to show some sort of affection that they were deeply in love. The curves that are used in the above image are flowing curves combined with a rectangular structure. The image was created using a very stylised technique, the colours are dull and a bit faded sticking to the Glasgow art movement characteristics. The only true image should is the two faces of the male and female.
Blue and purple were the common colours used by Magaret and Frances Macdonald, purple meaning royalty and blue meaning tranquillity, this is well depicted in the print of Sheila Tandy.
Sheila Tandy was inspired by the works of Margaret Macdonald MacKintosh. Magaret created amazing work after all.
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch_Mackintosh/DetailedResults.fwx?SearchTerm=41523&reqMethod=Link
https://thebayattic.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/influenced-by-robert-burns/
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- James Herbert McNair
- Margaret Macdonald
- Frances Macdonald
These Scotish artists mentioned above met at Glasgow School of Art and began exploring their different approaches of art together. The formed an informal creative alliance.
They were all influenced by the works of Aubrey Beardsley And Jan Toorop. The four artists created a unique style of originality and symbolic complexity. They come up with a geometric style that was geometrically controlled almost perfect and aligned, with elements of a strong rectilinear structure.
Glasgow Four image:
Figure 1: Mackintosh, C, R, The Scottish Musical Review, 1897, Poster.
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/mackintosh/23.html
Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the above image he used geometric symmetry. Most of his work including the Glasgow Four contained some sort of geometric structure. From the above image, it is like the image is symmetrical, to form the feeling that one-half is the same as the other, the use of lines are profoundly used like the images in Art Nouveau artist Aubrey Beardsley.
The Glasgow Four movement was influenced by motifs. A motif is a decoration on an image that repeats itself to for sort of a pattern. Therefore The Scottish Musical Review has the same geometrical shapes and line that create a pattern if the image may be separated in the middle.
The Glasgow Four movement was distinguished by symbolic imagery and stylised form, hence the above image made by Mackintosh is stylised in a very simple way through the use of lines, flat colour and flat textures.
Flat planes of colour were implemented by the use of bold simple lines. This movement fused organic and geometric shapes. Verticality and integration of flowing curves with rectangular structure were also used. Most Glasgow Four posters have religious concepts to them because Margaret Macdonald and Frances Macdonald were sisters that held strong religious beliefs and embraced symbols and mystical ideas. Femininity, a fairytale fantasy and a melancholy disquietude, colours that were used were washed up and dull.
Example:
Figure 2: Macdonald, M, THE GYPSY, 1933, Pencil and ink on brown tracing paper.
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch_Mackintosh/DetailedResults.fwx?SearchTerm=41523&reqMethod=Link
New Glasgow
Figure 3: Tandy, S, Ae Fond Kiss, Print.
https://thebayattic.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/influenced-by-robert-burns/
The above image is a contemporary example of Magaret Macdonald's work. Sheila's work Ae Fond Kiss has the same characteristics as the GYPSY, the fusing of curvilinear and straight lines, the use of geometric and organic shapes. In this image the idea of romance it depicted rather than depicting religious women like the Glasgow sisters did. The lines used to merge the two characters together to show some sort of affection that they were deeply in love. The curves that are used in the above image are flowing curves combined with a rectangular structure. The image was created using a very stylised technique, the colours are dull and a bit faded sticking to the Glasgow art movement characteristics. The only true image should is the two faces of the male and female.
Blue and purple were the common colours used by Magaret and Frances Macdonald, purple meaning royalty and blue meaning tranquillity, this is well depicted in the print of Sheila Tandy.
Sheila Tandy was inspired by the works of Margaret Macdonald MacKintosh. Magaret created amazing work after all.
Image website:
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/mackintosh/23.html
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch_Mackintosh/DetailedResults.fwx?SearchTerm=41523&reqMethod=Link
https://thebayattic.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/influenced-by-robert-burns/
Thank you for your submission. Pay attention to your spelling and grammar. Make sure you use adequate referencing in your work. A very good description of the Glasgow four, just a shame you neglected to reference any of it. A good choice of contemporary artwork, and a good analysis, however you could have mentioned more, especially with the inclusion of mystic symbolism in the reference to the eye on the side.
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