Image credit: The May Queen. Margaret McDonald, 1900
This series of four lectures by Prof Maria Chester covers some of the key figures in the Glasgow School of Art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
For details of the Kelvingrove guided tour, click here.
We begin with an examination of the lives and work of a group of loosely connected artists who became known as The Glasgow Boys, which included the Belfast born Sir John Lavery.
We will then look in more detail at the work of two Glasgow boys, Edward Atkinson Hornel and George Henry, who travelled to Japan and helped spread the influential art movement known as Japonisme. Working with photographs, Hornel contributed to the creation of a new style of asymmetric composition.
From the same Glasgow School of Art, a group of women - the so-called “Glasgow Girls” were able to thrive in the world of fine and applied arts thanks to their ground- breaking access to art education.
The final two-hours will be dedicated to Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald, also a product of the Glasgow School of Art, with the analysis of what we call the “Scotto-Continental” style (Scottish Art Nouveau) which will reach and inspire the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.
03rd Oct - 10 -12 noon -The Glasgow Boys
10th Oct - 10 -12 noon - Hornel, Photography and Japonisme
17th Oct - 10 -12 noon - The Glasgow Girls
24th Oct - 10 -12 -noon - Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Art Nouveau in Scotland
This four part course assumes no previous knowledge and all are welcome.
Tea and coffee will be served. There is no need to print out and bring your ticket, as we will have a record of your booking.
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