{"id":77015,"date":"2018-08-24T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T09:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=77015"},"modified":"2018-08-28T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T09:26:24","slug":"incentive-glasgow-mackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/incentive-glasgow-mackintosh","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow: Mackintosh impervious to fashions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The journey from Glasgow airport to the city centre takes just 15 minutes, more than it takes Jack the taxi to sum up his vision of French-Scottish relations: \"\u00a0It was here, in 2002, that Zidane<\/strong> scored the finest goal of his career, a left-footed volley that has become known as the 'Glasgow volley'!<\/em>\u00a0\"Zidane was playing at Madrid<\/a>But no matter: this reminder is worth all the words of welcome in a region that is both a football fanatic and, above all, has been linked to France since the Middle Ages. The Auld Alliance between France and Scotland<\/strong>It culminated in the Hundred Years' War and continued for nearly three centuries, forging economic, cultural and emotional links that endure to this day. This explains why Hume, Adam Smith, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and all the eminent Scottish intellectuals travelled to France. As for Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), the architect whose 150th birthday the town is celebrating this year, he spent several years in the Collioure region.<\/p>\n

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From the top of his column, Walter Scott, and with him all the myths of Scotland, dominates George Square \u00a9 Alain Parinet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mackintosh's famous portrait<\/strong>The poster, with its elegant moustache and wide lavaliere, was displayed all over the city. It announces the major exhibition devoted to him this year by the Kelvingrove Museum*. Built in 1888 in the Spanish Baroque style, this monumental building flanked by a series of turrets stands in the chic and very green West End, a stone's throw from Finnieston. In other words, the docklands that were abandoned 20 years ago and are now one of Britain's hippest districts. As well as plans, photos and models of the buildings, the exhibition places Mackintosh's work in the artistic context of the time, and highlights the creations of the group Mackintosh formed with three other students in the mid-1890s, including the artist Margaret MacDonald, who later became his wife. Influenced by Japonism, Symbolism, Celtic imagery and the Arts & Crafts movement, 'The Four' invented what was to become the Glasgow Style, Scottish Art Nouveau<\/strong>The company's work covers a wide range of media: ceramics, mosaics, stained glass, metalwork, stencilling, embroidery, graphic design, interior design, furniture and architecture.<\/p>\n

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Until August, the Kelvingrove Museum is devoting an exhibition to the work of Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style. Alain Parinet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

* Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Making the Glasgow Style, Kelvingrove Museum (until 14 August 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

A fetish of the upper middle classes<\/h2>\n

Les Quatre exhibited in Li\u00e8ge, London and Vienna and established themselves as fetish artists<\/strong> The city's population soared from 200,000 in 1835 to over a million in 1935. Constantly redeveloped to accommodate ships of ever-increasing tonnage, the port created on the Clyde - the river that runs through Glasgow - was one of the busiest in the 19th century, and a major hub for trade with the United States. Its surroundings were home to a cutting-edge metallurgical and mechanical industry that produced millions of tonnes of cast iron and steel. A quarter of global production<\/strong> of steam locomotives came out of its factories, while its shipyards were the largest in the world at the time. Clydebuilt\" ships sailed the seas of the world. Many of the legendary liners of the Cunard Line were born here, including the Lusitania (1907), the Queen Mary (1934), the Queen Elizabeth (1938)... Considered to be the father of shipbuilding, one of the company's founders, engineer Robert Napier, was born in Glasgow.<\/p>\n