DOI Heft:
No. 52 (July, 1897)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: Some Glasgow designers and their work, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0115
Some Glasgow Designers
poster by m. and f. macdonald
follow. It is just because it is so curiously per-
sonal, and so honest an effort to obtain new effects
that you respect it, and take it quite seriously,
although you allow that others no less well-inten-
tioned find it is still outside the pale of their
sympathy.
In the big poster, some nine feet high, for the
Scottish Musical Review^ the scheme of colour is
most noticeable, the whole figure is sharply out-
lined in black upon a dark lustrous blue ground,
the robes of the figure being a rich purple, while
the decoration above and the projecting spots of
the tails of the birds are of pure emerald green.
In a smaller poster for the same periodical the two
discs are in vermilion, and the branching lines of
the design in emerald green, all outlined in black.
Another design for a poster of art and literature
in a scheme of green and heliotrope purple, has not
so far been carried out.
To defend the work of Mr. Mackintosh is easy to
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duced, are both effective and
comely in the actual piece of
furniture. The jewel casket has
an oak shell covered with brass,
with jewels in the top hinges.
But the posters demand a few
explanatory words. Some others,
partly by the same artist, have
been shown in London, and pro-
voked much diverse opinion.
But it must never be forgotten
that the purpose of a poster is
to attract notice, and the mildest
eccentricity would not be out of
place provided it aroused curiosity
and so riveted the attention of
passers-by. Mr. Mackintosh's
posters may be somewhat trying
to the average person, and his
semi-grotesque conventionalising
of the human figure is calculated
to provoke the stickler for prece-
dent. But there is so much
decorative method in his perver-
sion of humanity, that despite all
the ridicule and abuse it has
excited, after long intimacy it is
possible to defend his treatment.
But in doing so one cannot en-
dorse his innovation to the extent
of commending his very personal ' MAKSr,-MACi>owAffi.-.«vr.u«1
method as a model for others to book-plate by Margaret macdonald
98
poster by m. and f. macdonald
follow. It is just because it is so curiously per-
sonal, and so honest an effort to obtain new effects
that you respect it, and take it quite seriously,
although you allow that others no less well-inten-
tioned find it is still outside the pale of their
sympathy.
In the big poster, some nine feet high, for the
Scottish Musical Review^ the scheme of colour is
most noticeable, the whole figure is sharply out-
lined in black upon a dark lustrous blue ground,
the robes of the figure being a rich purple, while
the decoration above and the projecting spots of
the tails of the birds are of pure emerald green.
In a smaller poster for the same periodical the two
discs are in vermilion, and the branching lines of
the design in emerald green, all outlined in black.
Another design for a poster of art and literature
in a scheme of green and heliotrope purple, has not
so far been carried out.
To defend the work of Mr. Mackintosh is easy to
f
f» ■''
OM MK+ I-
5.0N,yM +"_!) f-V, ♦'10N V M♦
duced, are both effective and
comely in the actual piece of
furniture. The jewel casket has
an oak shell covered with brass,
with jewels in the top hinges.
But the posters demand a few
explanatory words. Some others,
partly by the same artist, have
been shown in London, and pro-
voked much diverse opinion.
But it must never be forgotten
that the purpose of a poster is
to attract notice, and the mildest
eccentricity would not be out of
place provided it aroused curiosity
and so riveted the attention of
passers-by. Mr. Mackintosh's
posters may be somewhat trying
to the average person, and his
semi-grotesque conventionalising
of the human figure is calculated
to provoke the stickler for prece-
dent. But there is so much
decorative method in his perver-
sion of humanity, that despite all
the ridicule and abuse it has
excited, after long intimacy it is
possible to defend his treatment.
But in doing so one cannot en-
dorse his innovation to the extent
of commending his very personal ' MAKSr,-MACi>owAffi.-.«vr.u«1
method as a model for others to book-plate by Margaret macdonald
98