Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Art Is the Flower

Influential Scottish architect, artist and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh drew and painted plants prolifically throughout his career, although recognition of his achievements in this respect came only relatively recently. This book, illustrated with lovely full-color reproductions, traces the development of Mackintosh's botanical studies. His changing style is followed from the early pencil sketchbook drawings, through the introduction of watercolor in the early 1900s, to the beautiful Walberswick group of 1914-15. Mackintosh's sophisticated still-life compositions and striking textile designs of later years, which were to place him at the forefront of the avant-garde movement in Britain, are also considered in context.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Art Is The Flower

Arts & Photography

Robertson, Pamela

History & Criticism

Diane Pub Co.

Pamela Robertson, an acknowledged authority on Mackintosh, examines the artist's use of plant forms as decorative and formal sources for his designs in architecture, interiors, textiles, and graphics. She shows the ways in which nature provided lifelong inspiration for his work and analyzes his recurring use of the rose, a design motif which held a special significance as a symbol of art, beauty, and love for both Mackintosh and his artist wife, Margaret Macdonald. In addition, the author looks at Mackintosh's paintings and designs in relation to the work of contemporary symbolists, Japanese floral art, and the European tradition of scientific botanical illustration. Mackintosh's renowned skills as a draftsman are immediately apparent in his flower paintings. The sixty full-page colorplates presented here reveal early pencil sketchbook drawings done while Mackintosh was an apprentice architect and a student at the Glasgow School of Art, watercolors made on England's North Sea coast in 1914-15, and sophisticated still-life compositions of later years. Reproduced as well are striking floral-based textile designs of the 1920s, abstractions that placed him at the forefront of Britain's avant-garde movement. Photographs of his work in architecture and interiors are also included.

Flowers: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

Mackintosh Flower Drawings

University of Glasgow,French & German Publications

The Mackintosh House

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Hunterian Art Gallery,University of Glasgow

This volume concentrates on the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, influential Scottish architect, artist and designer, who painted flowers and plants prolifically throughout his career. It traces the development of his botanical studies from the early pencil sketchbook drawings, through the introduction of watercolour in the early 1900s, culminating in the Suffolk group of 1914 to 1915, and concluding with the studies from France of 1923 to 1927. The book also considers the work of contemporary symbolists, the evident influence of Japanese floral art, the European botanical tradition and early herbals. It also looks at the use of plant forms as decorative and formal sources for his design work in architecture, furniture, interiors, textiles and graphics, most notably his use of the rose as a design theme throughout his work.

Charles Rennie MacKintosh: Art is the Flower

Chrysalis Books Group

Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna (Cultural Studies)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

I.B.Tauris

Towards the end of his life Charles Rennie Mackintosh moved to the south of France where he devoted himself to painting in watercolour. Meticulously executed and brilliantly coloured, these works are conceived with a sense of design and an eye for pattern in nature which owe much to his genius as an architect and designer. This book records Mackintosh's time in France and explores his career as a landscape painter, placing his paintings in the context of the modern movement. All the works Mackintosh is known to have completed in France are illustrated and are accompanied by photographs of the places he painted as well as extracts from his letters.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France: Landscape Watercolors

Long, Philip

Natl Galleries of Scotland

Known worldwide for his architecture and interior designs, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was also an extremely gifted painter. Towards the end of his life he gave up his principal career as an architect and moved to the south of France where he devoted himself to painting in watercolor. Meticulously executed and brilliantly colored, these landscape watercolors are conceived with a sense of design and an eye for pattern in nature, which owes much to his brilliance as an architect and designer. This book charts Mackintosh's time in France and explores his career as a landscape painter, placing his work in the context of the modern movement. The forty-four paintings Mackintosh is known to have completed while in France are illustrated, and are supported by documentary photographs of the places he painted as well as extracts from his letters written to his wife and friends.Contents: Sponsor's Preface; Foreword; Mackintosh's French Watercolours; Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Painter Amongst Painters; The French Watercolours; Chronology; Maps; Exhibition Checklist; Appendix; Notes & References; Select Bibliography.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France: Landscape Watercolours

National Galleries Of Scotland

-The first publication to discuss in depth this period of Mackintosh's work -Written by the leading Mackintosh expert -Includes extracts from Mackintosh's letters written while in France, to friends and family -Revised edition which features a fresh, modern new cover -New, popular flexicover binding - adds a modern, luxurious feel -Contains a new foreword by the Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland, Sir John Leighton Known worldwide for his architecture and interior designs, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was also an extremely gifted painter. Towards the end of his life, he gave up his principal career as an architect and moved to the south of France where he devoted himself to painting in watercolor. Meticulously executed and brilliantly colored, these landscape watercolors are conceived with a sense of design and an eye for pattern in nature, which owes much to his brilliance as an architect and designer. This book charts Mackintosh's time in France and explores his career as a landscape painter, placing his work in the context of the modern movement. The forty-four paintings Mackintosh is known to have completed while in France are illustrated, and are supported by documentary photographs of the places he painted as well as extracts from his letters written to his wife and friends. This new, revised edition of an enduringly popular title on one of Scotland's best-loved artists contains a new foreword by the Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland, Sir John Leighton, and will feature a new cover design, updated to feature the popular flexicover binding.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France

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