- Glasgow School
The Glasgow School was a circle of influential
modern art ists and designers who began to coalesce inGlasgow ,Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the 1890s to sometime around 1910. Groups part of this were The Four (also known as the Spook School), the Glasgow Girls and the Glasgow Boys.Glasgow experienced an economic boom at the end of the 19th century, resulting in a burst of distinctive contributions to the
Art Nouveau movement, particularly in the fields ofarchitecture ,interior design , andpainting .The Four (The Spook School)
Among the most prominent definers of the Glasgow School loose collective were The Four: acclaimed
architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh , the painter andglass art ist Margaret MacDonald (Mackintosh's wife), MacDonald's sister Frances, andHerbert MacNair . Cumulatively, The Four defined theGlasgow Style (a syncretistic blend of Celtic andJapanese art ), which found favour throughout themodern art world of continentalEurope . The Four, otherwise known as the Spook School, ultimately made a great impact on the definition of Art Nouveau.The Glasgow Girls
The Glasgow Girls were a group of female designers and artists including
Frances MacDonald , sister of Margaret MacDonald and sister-in-law to Charles Rennie Mackintosh.The Glasgow Boys
Through the 1880s and 1890s—around the same time that the Spook School was gaining prominence—a collective who came to be known as the Glasgow Boys were interpreting and expanding the of Impressionist and Post-impressionist painting. Their subject matter featured
rural , prosaic scenes from in and around Glasgow. Their colorful depictions attempted to capture the many facets of the character ofScotland .Among the painters associated with the group were
Joseph Crawhall ,Thomas Millie Dow , Sir James Guthrie, George Henry, E. A. Hornel, andE. A. Walton .References
*Burkhauser, Jude. "Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design 1880–1920". Canongate Publishing Ltd., 1993.
ee also
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Ann Macbeth
*Arthur Melville
*Glasgow School of Art
*Scottish Colourists
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