{"id":365,"date":"2008-08-21T13:01:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=365"},"modified":"2017-06-30T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T11:39:30","slug":"no-assholes-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Kelvingrove"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRiver Kelvin and Kelvingrove Art Gallery<\/small><\/p>\n

Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery<\/a>. is a gallery I can whole-hardheartedly recommend with a fine collection of paintings and other objects.<\/p>\n

My companions and I differed in our opinions of the ‘Glasgow Boys<\/em>‘, whose contribution to art in the 1880s and 90s deserves to be better known, but the gallery has a superb collection of French painting, although unfortunately too many works were absent on loan, some in Edinburgh for a joint show, ‘Impressionism & Scotland<\/em>‘ which comes to Glasgow later in the year. I don’t like these big collected shows – much better I think to see the works a few at a time, but having paid your \u00a38 you feel obliged to slog round all hundred and something of them.<\/p>\n

The gallery (entry is free)\u00a0 also has a fine display of work by C R Mackintosh <\/a>and friends\u00a0 – rather more authentic than in most tea-rooms and certainly than the ‘Rennie Mackintosh’ hotel I was staying in. (Like W H F Talbot, Mackintosh seems almost always saddled in the popular mind with his middle name.)\u00a0 It also made clear how much his work relied on that of sisters\u00a0 Frances and Margaret Macdonald<\/em>, which I found more interesting than his. Good though buildings such as the ‘School of Art’ are, I find a little Mackintosh goes a very long way.<\/p>\n

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It’s also a great place for kids, and there were a lot enjoying it while we were there on a wet August morning. What other museum can boast both a Spitfire and a giraffe?<\/p>\n

(Also showing at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery were photographs by\u00a0 one of its most illustrious photographer sons, Harry Benson <\/em>– which I write about separately<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

River Kelvin and Kelvingrove Art Gallery Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery. is a gallery I can whole-hardheartedly recommend with a fine collection of paintings and other objects. My companions and I differed in our opinions of the ‘Glasgow Boys‘, whose contribution to art in the 1880s and 90s deserves to be better known, but the gallery … Continue reading Kelvingrove<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}