Glasgow art

Glasgow’s Art History

The history of Glasgow’s art is lively, contemporary and is highly admired from all across the globe. Glasgow can be said to be one of the most inspiring cities in the world, with Art schools designed by the world famous C.R.Macintosh and international attractions throughout, only suggests how famous Glasgow’s Art can be. Although Glasgow produced inspiring artists such as Macintosh, it also owns one of the most expensive collections of art in the world, spread out across 13 museums throughout Glasgow. With such as high standard of collections, it comes as no surprise that in 1999, Glasgow was voted the UK city of Architecture and Design.

Glasgow’s Artists

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a notable architect and artist from Glasgow. Mackintosh attended Glasgow School of Art in the late 1880’s. Mackintosh was heavily influenced by the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Mackintosh worked on many notable architectural projects such as the House for an Art Lover and the Glasgow School of Art.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum consists of three floors:

• Lower Ground Floor
• Ground Floor
• First Floor

Lower Ground Floor – This is the main public entrance to the Gallery. It contains a small RBS Gallery as well as a café/ restaurant.

Ground Floor – This first of all has a mini museum for under 5’s, which then leads into the two separate sides of the museum – Life and Expression. Other individual Galleries include - Ancient Egypt, Glasgow Stories.

First Floor – Displays some new facilities such as the Study Centre, the History Discovery Centre and the Multimedia Object Cinema. First Floor covers a wide range of subjects e.g. Cultural Survival, Italian Art etc.

Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art

Based in the heart of Glasgow City Centre, the Glasgow Gallery of Modern art is a neo-classical building offering a variety of thought-provoking temporary exhibitions, featuring work by local, national and international artists. The internation works on display are from a variety of media sources, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photography and videos. Within the gallery, there is an interesting combination of new and old architecture. The gallery itself is continually evolving and developing, and attracting new audiences. In the basement of the Gallery exists a Library, along with a café, free internet acess terminals and general book-lending services.

• Inside view of Kelvingrove Galleries
  Inside view of Kelvingrove Galleries

See Also

1. People’s Palace People’s Palace
2. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery Hunterian_Museum_and_Art_Gallery
3. Culture in Glasgow Culture_in_Glasgow

External Links

[1] Glasgow Museums
[2] Glasgow City Council – Museum and Galleries [3] iknow Scotland

References

http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/assets/fileStore/VistGMleafletEnglish.pdf
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=3
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/building/index.cfm?venueid=4