Mackintosh literally embodies the whole identity of British contemporary art nouveau architecture.Scot by birth, he has devoted all his life to making art of his homeland famous.Typically, the exhibition in the Moscow Kremlin put only the most significant masterpieces.It works by legendary artists, sculptors and architects, recognized worldwide.
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Rooms One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace appeared wooden chairs of different heights and styles.On the walls hang paintings with unusual subjects.
Beside them landscapes in a realistic style.
contrast between modernity and abstraction outside of time can be traced in every work of the Scottish master.
Thanks to the original approach, the creators of the exhibition, the exhibition was housed in another this architectural monument, where the best exhibitions in the Kremlin.One-room, preserved from the XVII century, specially chosen for the exhibition hall.The atmosphere of the exhibition center complements the work of Mackintosh.
British art in Russia
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, whose exhibition opened in Moscow - an outstanding figure even for unusual accustomed to all things British.The Gallery of Modern Art Tate Modern hundreds of extraordinary paintings, sculptures and decorative elements.And the residents of Russia most admired classical art, realistic style and antiquity.There is nothing unusual in the fact that the exhibition Macintosh in the Kremlin became a sensation for fans of art and architecture.
Charles was born in the distant 1868, and died in 1928.During his life he had seen and national conflicts, war and international scale.Some moments of his life were reflected in the works of the author.
representative of the School of Art, which is currently in the industrial city of Glasgow, Scotland McIntosh praised for many years.Art Nouveau literally came to life under his drawing implements.He became a renewed and began to play with new meaning.
He lived at the turn of the twentieth century and worked to the point of junction of several types of art.
Modern newly
McIntosh gave a second wind modernity, which at the turn of the twentieth century began to outlive itself.An artist by vocation, he successfully combined painting with the architecture.
creating projects furniture or leading a brush on the canvas, the Macintosh, the exhibition which is so popular, has never been afraid of new forms of color combinations.And the materials he chose for new creations, making each of his work is absolutely unique.The main inspiration was the geometric shapes.
Before Mackintosh contemporary art at that time had a very different kind.After becoming popular at the time, the style of the architect is popular to this day.The symbiosis of modern and classical schools, experimentation and tradition could not be better represented in the exhibition with the help of the Kremlin.
Who is this Mac?
In Scotland, the father of modernity called Charles Rennie Mackintosh.The talent of the artist noticed even in high school, which he combined with evening courses at the School of Art in Glasgow.For his outstanding abilities, Charles received an additional scholarship, which enabled him to go to Italy and France.In these countries, it is contemplated the masterpieces of architecture, monuments and paintings.Returning to his native Scotland, Mackintosh decided what she wants from life, and began to carry out the dream.
He did not hesitate to work simply as a draftsman in a local architectural firm, which later became the owner.Already in 1893 there was the first amazing project Charles Tower "Glasgow Herald."Charles married a classmate from the School of Arts and lived a happy life with her.
Despite the fact that Europe has taken his work with enthusiasm, courage in the conservative British architect did not appreciate.
genius was a member of the group of artists called "Quartet."The group was created during his student years, Charles.It included his friend Herbert McNair and two sisters Frances and Margaret Macdonald.Together, they founded a completely new design style called "Glasgow Style".
Now Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition - it is a brand known worldwide.
Makintoshizm
Charles Mackintosh tried to do everything on his own.He very quickly came the style that it was difficult to attribute to someone else.First, critics working method called the "inside out", then dubbed "Makintoshizmom."
All buildings are designed by Charles must have existed in harmony with the interior decoration, furniture.The house itself and the objects in it becoming one body.
His work is very functional, no-frills, beautiful and elegant shape.It Charles Mackintosh, the exhibition is also available now and the Russian public, took on a new modern constructive way, with strict mathematically precise lines and unusual building.
Works architect
Glasgow project Mackintosh built several buildings.His work is easily recognizable.In addition, they successfully supplement local species.
most famous buildings Macintosh:
- building a private house Hill House;
- native Macintosh School of Art;
- local school in Glasgow;
- willow tea room;
- Queens Cross Church.
These buildings are somewhat similar to the locks.Charles is specifically focused on this model to emphasize Architecture belonging to the traditions of Scotland.
McIntosh was not afraid to mix in their buildings steel, glass, concrete.
furniture from designer
boundless imagination of the architect and artist, is not allowed to stop there.
He dabbled in various art forms.After a successful architectural design, urban buildings McIntosh took up the furniture.The exhibition in the Kremlin Mac also presented to the Russian audience samples of his work.
Each piece of furniture made by the designer, is unique.Second such exists.Charles decorate their tables and chairs with silver edged them in metal, covered with enamel or embed them in colored glass.
Design of genius
addition to furniture and design houses, he created sketches for murals, textiles, windows, door glass windows, fireplaces and even hours.To decorate the walls in their homes, he came up with the stencils, and it became his trademark.Mainly I decorate all the roses that symbolized the author.
Few people know that Charles Mackintosh painted outdoor billboards and posters.He worked through the design for the tickets, advertising and so on.
designer came up with his signature font.Each letter, they deduced, because it is considered a work of art.
Figures
McIntosh did not immediately come to the usual painting.In his youth he was more interested in three-dimensional shapes that could build.
in old age for the first time succeeded in the plot pen brush.In his declining years, Charles actively painted landscapes, still lifes.All this is done with watercolors, in its own easily recognizable style.
Pictures architect are especially valuable because they were created not so much, and each of his paintings is considered a national treasure of Scotland and the UK as a whole.
What to see at the show?
The museum in Glasgow could not translate the architectural masterpieces of the Macintosh and confined in smaller works, but no less ambitious.
main exhibits in the exhibition can be considered:
- Macintosh picture painted watercolor landscapes from Scotland;
- unique furniture, as chairs and tables;
- mirror;
- samples interiors;
- stencils with a famous author's letters;
- lamp.
highlight of the collection brought steel interior elements that made the Macintosh to order for individuals from Glasgow and the surrounding villages.In this room is a table, a chair and even a mirror, developed by its design.All together creates a composition as indicated in my drawing by the author.Also in Russia were imported several kinds of furniture from the tea salon in the Chinese style.
Without sustained strict sequence designed furniture loses its artistic value as an art object.Therefore, when the exhibition was created Macintosh in the Kremlin, who arrived from Scotland guests thoroughly advised Russian colleagues.
Unfortunately, some items that were supposed to be on the show, has suffered during the fire.In Glasgow Mackintosh creation is on fire, the School of Arts.His dear alma mater.The representatives of the school had to pass some copies of works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the exhibition at the Museum of the Kremlin, but could not because of the tragedy.
Learning of this, representatives of the exhibition in Moscow have expressed their sympathy and hope that the school will be able to quickly recover and continue to work with their brokers in the future.
Patriarch's Palace, or rather its Pillar Chamber, which has hosted visiting the exhibition, confident in its success.This show was the program for the entire series of exhibitions that are held in the museums of the Kremlin in Moscow.Trade show organizers continue to carry out his plan.They seek to introduce Muscovites and guests of the city with the most outstanding and outstanding representatives of art world of the present and the past century.
Pillar Chamber, after many attempts, finally restored in 2005.Then the first time it decided to turn to the hall for exhibitions.Only the best exhibition in Moscow could get there.
Chamber - a true monument of civil architecture, which came to us from the depths of the seventeenth century.During the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the existence of the Kremlin museums in this building housed a grand exhibition in honor of the Russian Emperors and the Armoury.
Russian museum staff were very pleased with the opportunity to place within its walls works Macintosh.Mackintosh exhibition in the Kremlin began its work.
