Glasgow School Painting. The Glasgow School was a circle of influential artists and designers that began to coalesce in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the 1890s to around 1910.
Representative groups included The Four, the Glasgow Girls and the Glasgow Boys. Part of the international ''art nouveau'' movement, they were responsible for creating the distinctive Glasgow Style.
Glasgow experienced an economic boom at the end of the 19th century, resulting in an increase in distinctive contributions to the Art Nouveau movement, particularly in the fields of architecture, interior design and painting. Among the most prominent definers of the Glasgow School collective were The Four.
They were the painter and glass artist Margaret MacDonald, acclaimed architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, MacDonald's sister Frances and Herbert MacNair. Together, The Four defined the Glasgow Style's fusion of influences including the Celtic Revival, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Japonisme, which found favour throughout the modern art world of continental Europe.
The Four, otherwise known as the Spook School, ultimately made a significant impact on the definition of Art Nouveau. The name, Spook School, or Spooky or Ghoul School, was originally a derisive epithet given to their work which distorted and conventionalized human. form. The Glasgow Girls is the name now used for a group of female designers and a