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19 de dic. de 2017 · Most people have heard of Art Nouveau, but few remember two of the most influential figures in its conception. (No, not Gustav Klimt.) They were a pair of sisters named Margaret and Frances MacDonald, who, along with their Glasgow School of Art classmates Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair, comprised the Glasgow Four.
15 de abr. de 2024 · 3,400 words. Syndicate this essay. ‘Philosophical theories are much more like good stories than scientific explanations.’. This provocative remark comes from the paper ‘Linguistic Philosophy and Perception’ (1953) by Margaret Macdonald. Macdonald was a figure at the institutional heart of British philosophy in the mid- 20th century ...
Margaret se dedicó principalmente a la pintura para paredes interiores. Algunas de sus famosas decoraciones fueron destinadas para varios salones de té de Glasgow, como la ‘Willow Tea Room’ de 1903. Su estilo fue siempre lírico y estilizado, con tendencia a la fantasía y preferencia por las formas redondas. Destacaban los elementos ...
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864–1933), painter and designer, was one of the most successful of the artist-designers later called the 'Glasgow Girls'. She produced watercolours, graphics, and panels in gesso (plaster), beaten metal and textile, much of this in collaboration with her sister, Frances Macdonald (1874–1921), James Herbert ...
Margaret MacDonald, Macdonald or McDonald may refer to: . Margaret MacDonald (visionary) (1815 – c. 1840), Scottish charismatic Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1865–1933), Scottish artist; Margaret Ethel MacDonald (1870–1911), British feminist, social reformer, and wife of Labour politician Ramsay MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) (1873–1948), Canadian nurse
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh is highly regarded as a notable artist and designer of gesso panels and metalwork. This Summer panel is an allegorical work in which a stylised Art Nouveau figure of a woman and four infants represent the fecundity and greenness of the season. The panel is based upon an 1897 watercolour of the same name, now in ...
Margaret Macdonald (1864-1933) Margaret Macdonald was one of the most gifted and successful women artists in Scotland at the turn of the century. Her output was wide-ranging and included watercolours, graphics, metalwork and textiles. Arguably her greatest achievements were in gesso, a plaster-based medium, which she used to make decorative ...
