DOI Heft:
No. 48 (March, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Armour, Margaret: Mural decoration in Scotland, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0109
Mural Decoration in Scotland
Less bril
1 i a n t I y
c o 1 oured,
but equally
strong in
their hand-
ling, are the
series in the
ante-draw-
ing-room.
Still an-
other room
in Professor
Geddes'
house has
become a
small art
gal lery
through Mr. Mackie's genius.
From the numerous panels that
decorate it one is reproduced
here. It is a season pastoral, a
delightful representation of early
summer. The tone, as always
with Mr. Mackie, is adapted to
the colour of the wall,, and the
modelling flattened out of defer-
ence to the architectural lines;
for the central idea of mural
painting as one part of an organic
whole has been firmly grasped.
Summer, of which an illustration
is given on page 106, expresses
charmingly Mr. Mackie's intense
love of things youthful and fair,
which makes him the playfellow
of children and the comrade of
the young year.
He sees life less as an oma-
"thb call to arms" decorative panel by charles h. mackie mentalist than with the broadly
human eye, and only after the
Mr. Charles H. Mackie. One is so accustomed to poetry of a theme has appealed to him does he set
the haphazard landscape whose charms come often his ordering hand to create for it a beautiful and
so much "more from luck than good guidance," significant rendering. Hence the sane and classic
that a reasoned and calculated landscape design balance of all his work.
brings one up with quite a shock of surprise—and Originally a painter of easel pictures, and accus-
pleasure. tomed irresponsibly to assert his own vivid moods,
Nobody with the slightest eye for art could be he has now attained to the wider and more im-
in Professor Geddes' drawing-room and miss Mr. personal outlook of the decorator; and by yielding
Mackie's two landscape panels. The audacious no point to the exigencies of the new art without
forms and colour-schemes are justified by complete testing the necessity by thought and experiment,
success, and, arresting as they are in themselves, he has worked himself into a style individual and
they are perfectly harmonious with the room, distinguished, and has achieved a " grand manner"
whose artistic intention they catch and accentuate, all his own.
i°5
Less bril
1 i a n t I y
c o 1 oured,
but equally
strong in
their hand-
ling, are the
series in the
ante-draw-
ing-room.
Still an-
other room
in Professor
Geddes'
house has
become a
small art
gal lery
through Mr. Mackie's genius.
From the numerous panels that
decorate it one is reproduced
here. It is a season pastoral, a
delightful representation of early
summer. The tone, as always
with Mr. Mackie, is adapted to
the colour of the wall,, and the
modelling flattened out of defer-
ence to the architectural lines;
for the central idea of mural
painting as one part of an organic
whole has been firmly grasped.
Summer, of which an illustration
is given on page 106, expresses
charmingly Mr. Mackie's intense
love of things youthful and fair,
which makes him the playfellow
of children and the comrade of
the young year.
He sees life less as an oma-
"thb call to arms" decorative panel by charles h. mackie mentalist than with the broadly
human eye, and only after the
Mr. Charles H. Mackie. One is so accustomed to poetry of a theme has appealed to him does he set
the haphazard landscape whose charms come often his ordering hand to create for it a beautiful and
so much "more from luck than good guidance," significant rendering. Hence the sane and classic
that a reasoned and calculated landscape design balance of all his work.
brings one up with quite a shock of surprise—and Originally a painter of easel pictures, and accus-
pleasure. tomed irresponsibly to assert his own vivid moods,
Nobody with the slightest eye for art could be he has now attained to the wider and more im-
in Professor Geddes' drawing-room and miss Mr. personal outlook of the decorator; and by yielding
Mackie's two landscape panels. The audacious no point to the exigencies of the new art without
forms and colour-schemes are justified by complete testing the necessity by thought and experiment,
success, and, arresting as they are in themselves, he has worked himself into a style individual and
they are perfectly harmonious with the room, distinguished, and has achieved a " grand manner"
whose artistic intention they catch and accentuate, all his own.
i°5