CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH

1. “Art: A Way of Communication” An eTwinning Project CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH BY THE PRIMARY 7 PUPILS OF SHAWLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh is famous for his successful building designs, paintings, stained glass windows, textiles, furniture, wallpaper and even cutlery! Charles died in 1928 aged 60. His work has become much more popular since his death. Why is he famous? The white rose and the red rose Scotland St school Stained glass Window Argyle Chair

3. EDUCATION ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Charles Rennie Mackintosh attended Reid‘s Public School. He then attended Allen Glens Institution, a private school, from the age of nine. He attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art where he met Margaret McDonald. She became his wife. In 1889 he became an architectural assistant with a company called Honeyman and Keppie.

5. Awards and Prizes Awards and Prizes In his fifth year at the old Glasgow School of Art Charles Rennie Mackintosh passed building construction and won one of five bronze medals, he later won a gold and a silver medal for his Italian and French renaissance designs. He was awarded 1st prize for his drawing skills and one of the national queens prizes for his design of a church and the national silver medal in 1890 for a science and art museum. In 1890 Charles ` Mackintosh won the Alexander Thompson travelling studentship for public design, and with the prize ` of £60 he decided to travel Europe. In 1896 he won a compotation to design the new Glasgow school of art. In 1901 he entered a competition to design a House for an Art Lover’. He didn’t win because his entry was submitted too late but he did get a special award for his designs unique personal quality.

6. Furniture He designed furniture for exhibition. Also, for every house he designed, he created everything to go inside it. He designed this chair for Catherine Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms around 1898- 189. It was given the appropriate name “The Argyle Chair”. He designed this piece of furniture, later named “Washstand”, with oak, ceramic tiling, coloured and mirrored glass and lead. He designed this “Cheval Mirror” in 1900 made in oak (painted white), with glass inlays and silver brass handles.

7. Textiles Charles Rennie Mackintosh created many textile designs including rose and teardrop, odalisque and tulip and lattice. His designs usually combined plants and geometric shapes. It is not known how many of his textiles designs were made into fabrics. Tulip and lattice Rose and teardrop odalisque

10. Paintings & Sketches Charles Rennie Mackintosh has created many well known paintings and sketches such as The Fort, Liverpool Cathedral and the Glasgow Institute poster. Some of them are now stored in The Huntarian Museum (Glasgow). Design of Blue and Pink Tobacco Flowers is a lovely painting of his, it was made between 1916 to 1923. Liverpool Cathedral The Fort Glasgow Institute Poster

11. Writing Font This is the Charles Rennie Mackintosh font. It is based on the style mackintosh used in all his work. The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Font was the brainchild of designer George R. Grant, mainly because his accountant needed the typeface for his wedding invitations!

12. SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL • The Scotland Street school was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. There are two great towers on the front of the building. The building was made of red sandstone and it has a slate roof. • The school closed in 1979. Now Scotland Street is a museum of school as it was a long time ago in Glasgow. • Scotland Street school was built by Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1903-1906. It is located next to the Shields Road Subway Station. • The total cost of the building was £34,291 and was over budget and the board wanted a less expensive design. • The design of the school was based on Rowallan castle in Ayrshire and Falkland Palace.

13. HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER The House for an Art Lover design was entered into a competition set by a German magazine in 1901. Macintosh worked very hard to make it in as modern a style as possible. The result is a great design which is admired around the world. Whilst Mackintosh's entry was disqualified from the competition for late submission, the designs were awarded a special prize for “their pronounced personal quality.”   Macintosh’s entry design The construction of House for an Art Lover didn’t start until 1989 and was finished in 1996. It is in Bellahouston Park. The dining room The House for an Art Lover is a museum in Glasgow and can be used for functions such as weddings and important meetings. Piano designed by Macintosh

14. The Glasgow School of Art • In January 1897 Charles Rennie Mackintosh was 27 when he won a competition to design a new Glasgow School of Art. • The governors only had enough money to build half the building. It was almost a decade after the first half of the building was built that the second half of the Glasgow School of Art got built. • The first half of the Glasgow School of Art opened in 1899. • The library is one of his masterpieces. • He had to design a fireproof staircase but it did not work when there was a fire! • It is now used as an art school.

15. Art Activities Using thick black paper and coloured tissue paper create a ‘stained glass window’ in the Mackintosh style Create a charcoal or pencil sketch of one of your favourite buildings. Make yourself a name plaque using the Glasgow Font. Use either paint, crayon or coloured pencils to copy/design a repeating Mackintosh pattern.