The Glasgow Four and Viennese Secession

The Glasgow Four and Vinesse Secession

The Glasgow Four comprised of:

Charles R. Macintosh
(7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928)
Was the leading foreman in the Glasgow style when it was developed
they paved way for other art styles like modenism and minimalism.
Architecture and painting were the forms of art that were on the rise at the time, and were beginning to be renown in Glasgow.
His influence in the arts and crafts in scottland was marginally influencial to the Glasgow style and for the fourthcomming generations as well.

He was very talented in the styles he did, which were: Architecture, painting decorative arts and design - such as poster design and textile design.

The four had inspirations like - Aubrey Beardsley and Jan Toorop - their work has a hard reflection of those artists, the way they demonstrated their work was also influenced by the European contemporary arts / which they were into.

Their style consisted of celtic imagery with motifs of lettering,  inspired by carvings from seventeenth century tombstones.




lyrical original, and symbolic complexity bold simple lines, defined flat  panes of colour

Herbert Mcnair
(December 23, 1868 – April 22, 1955)

Was an artist that was born in Scotland - he was a Designer of many styles such as: making furniture, designing illustrations in books and designing posters.
Herbert was a teacher who a had major contribution to the Glasgow style in the 19th century
in fact one of the founders, with Charles R. Macintosh and the two MacDonald sisters.

Herbert was influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement and European movements such as Art Nouveau and symbolism


Glasgow Siters

Margret McDonald

Frances McDonald

Were the artists that were renown in the


Viennese Secession

(Formed in 1987)
This movement comprised of multiple disciplines Architect's, painters and sculptors.
There is not one style that comprises of everybody's art style - meaning
this was every individual artist putting their work out and letting people indulge in it, the movement did not mean that everybody had an artistic contribution to one anothers work, they all did their work individually and made it clear that their styles were not of the historicist / traditional art style, it was more of bridging the gap between Applied Arts and Traditional Art.

It started with a group of artists who were all I'm the the Union of Austrian Artists, but left to create a revolution in the art world, they left with a purpose to rediscover the art for the future.

They represented a protest of the younger generation against traditional art (historicism) / their main objective was to bridge the gap between traditional arts and applied arts.
To rediscover art as a whole in saying traditional art is not the only form of art there is and is taken as serious as it is.
The young