Glasgow school
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Glasgow School of Art has its origins in the Glasgow Government School of Design, which was established on 6 January 1845.
He was apprenticed to a local architect, John Hutchinson, and attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art. In 1889 he joined the firm of Honeyman and Keppie, becoming a partner in 1904.
It also had an "extraordinary flowering" in Scotland where it was represented by the development of the 'Glasgow Style' which was based on the talent of the Glasgow School of Art.
From this point onwards his reputation grew and he became a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy, head of sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art (a post he held from 1938 until his retirement in 1961), ...
Books, newspapers, posters, tracts and advertisements, so specific, influential with words, signs and images were fashioned and arranged to suit differing aesthetic (La Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau, Vienna Secession, Art Deco, Glasgow School, Dada, ...
However, unlike many of his Art Nouveau contemporaries in the field of architecture, Mackintosh preferred simple design and economy of form as opposed to ornate decoration. Mackintosh was also a founding member of the Glasgow School movement and the ...
 See also: School, Painting, Fine art, Movement, Art nouveau
  
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