Grayson Perry, ‘Art is dead Long live Art’. Charcoal from the Mackintosh Library in glazed ceramic. 21 x 10cm. Work starting on the roof. Photo copyright Alan McAteer, 2016. Design for Glasgow School of Art: east/west elevations, 1897. Collection: Glasgow School of Art, MC/G/60 Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, ‘The Heart of the Rose’; for ‘The Rose Boudoir’ exhibition with Charles Rennie Mackintosh at Turin 1902. Wood with gesso panels. MAK, Vienna. Plaster casts awaiting treatment. Photo by Robyne Calvert. Natalia Burakowska of PagePark, Lighting Design consultant Kevin Shaw, GSA Photography Lecturer Michael Mersinis, and Project Manager Sarah McKinnon all scrutinise the plates in the RCAHMS study room. Charles Rennie and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, ‘Salon de Luxe’ at the Willow Tea Rooms (1903) John Parsons, Jane Morris posed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 7 July 1865. Albumen print from wet collodion-on-glass negative, 253 x 200 mm. Victoria and Albert Museum [820-1942]. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Writing Cabinet from ‘The Rose Boudoir’ (exhibited Turin 1902). Wood with gesso panels. MAK, Vienna. Mackintosh Library, April 2014. Photo courtesy Bob Proctor. GSA Tableaux Vivants 2013: ‘The Artistic Dress – Different Times, Different Places’. Students in the 2012 Artistic Dress class recreated the heyday of the GSA. Mackintosh lives! William Holman Hunt, Self-Portrait, 1875, oil on canvas, Uffizi Gallery, Florence James Craig Annan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, ca. 1893. Modern bromide print, 200 x 151 mm, 7 7/8 x 6 in. National Portrait Gallery, Purchased 1984 [NPG x132515] Manet, ‘A Bar at the Follies Bergere’, 1882. Oil on canvas, 96 cm × 130 cm (37.8 in × 51.2 in). Collection: Courtauld Institute of Art, London. A wee sketch made on the iPad, 14/4/13. Photograph by Strawberry Singh 1. Edward Linley Sambourne, ‘Self-portrait in swimming costume’, 22 August 1888. Platinum bromide print. Collection of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Libraries and Arts Service. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, 1872-1873 oil on canvas 77 1/8 in. x 40 1/4 in. (195.9 cm x 102.24 cm) Henry Clay Frick Bequest. Accession number: 1916.1.133 ‘Mrs Luke Ionides’ by William Blake Richmond, London, 1882. I’ve used this image throughout this blog as it is, for me, one of the best examples of Artistic Dress.

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