- The Art Of The Poster
- The Mackintosh House
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| J.D Fergusson, The Red Dress, Botanic Gardens 1950 |
28th October 2011 - I travelled to Glasgow for the Hobby Crafts & Crafts for Christmas at the SECC.
OCA recommended a visit to The Hunterian, I am so please I went, the Colour, Rhythm & Form was a excellent exhibition. Fergusson's use of colour was amazing, the tension, contrasts and harmony was in abundance.The colours were vibrant and beautiful mixes which brought the pictures to life.He used mainly brush stokes I must have spent a good few hours here.
The Art Of the Poster was on at the same time, these were totally difference they were very bold and stood out (which was there object!).
In the mid 1890s, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret and Frances Macdonald and James Herbert MccNair - the group of four - produced a small group of posters that strikingly encapsulated their preoccupations with stylised form and individual lettering. These were worked into bold compositions, often with symbolic meaning. The posters successfully promoted their subjects, prompting debate in the local press, and also publicly signalled the arrival of a distinctive new design group.
The Mackintosh House gave you an insight of how modern Charles Rennie Mackintosh he was a way ahead of his time. The beautiful interiors place distinctive pieces of furniture/sculpture within subtly harmonious colour schemes, the whole imbued with a sensitivity to light and atmosphere which at times verges on the spiritual.
