Charles Rennie Mackintosh


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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

John Cairney presents Mackintosh in 1930, looking back on his life and work from a garden in Hampstead shortly before his death from cancer of the tongue. We see a neglected Glasgow architect and designer as an artist, who had a clear vision of what art can offer. Deeming utility to be the primary function of art, he created the distinctive sense of line and tone that defines his unique, figurative style. Though in danger today of being swallowed up in his own posthumous mythology, and the contemporary craze for 'Mackintoshery', Toshie is still his own man. His best work has had the vigour to survive despite its fashionable admirers. He had much to say about art and was not afraid to say it.

 

 


 

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