I've Nominated Charles Rennie Mackintosh For The £20 Note

Pinks past times Charles Rennie Mackintosh

This is my nomination for the visual creative mortal to look on the £20 note.  Have you lot done yours yet?

Glasgow School of Art.
Architect: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh is an creative mortal whose operate spanned the visual arts. He was equally good a existent original! He was hugely creative inwards the early on purpose of the 20th century equally both an architect as well as a designer – of furniture, metalwork as well as graphic art. He equally good drew as well as painted wonderful watercolours.

Finally the appreciation of this human being crosses borders inside the U.K. as well as beyond. Importantly, he had a notable influence on others inwards Europe. He equally good enjoys global recognition for his buildings as well as designs. He is genuinely a human being valued past times others.

I wrote virtually this in conclusion calendar week in Celebrate a visual creative mortal on the adjacent £20 note

Nomination Form

This is the nomination form - which needs to last completed past times xix July 2015.​

You bring 100 words to state why your visual creative mortal should last the 1 to look on the £20 note.

Visual artists include architects, artists, ceramicists, craftspeople, designers, fashion designers, filmmakers, photographers, printmakers as well as sculptors.

The Bank volition non characteristic fictional or living characters, amongst the exception of the Monarch, who appears on the front end of our notes.

Unless you lot nominate your favourite mortal may non last considered.

• The shortlist volition last drawn upward past times the Advisory Committee from the names of individuals nominated past times members of the public.
• The governor volition brand the end alternative from this shortlist 
• Who's going to last on the adjacent £20 volition last announced inwards Spring 2016.

At the goal you lot tin come across who others mean value it volition be. But starting fourth dimension a fighting of a wallow inwards Mackintosh.

Visual Arts past times Charles Rennie Macintosh

This is House for an Art Lover which has a fascinating history - starting amongst Mackintosh beingness technically disqualified from the fine art contest that he entered amongst the pattern for the house.

A window at Hill House - designed past times Charles Rennie Mackintosh

This is the Willow Tea Rooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street - as well as a pattern for the tables as well as chairs

Design for tables as well as chair amongst high back, for the Room de Luxe, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, 1903.
Pencil as well as watercolour on wove paper, past times Charles Rennie Mackintosh

The Fort (c.1923-4)
pencil as well as watercolour on newspaper mounted on board
watercolour paradigm past times Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Note: All images from Wikimedia Commons

More articles virtually the £20 Note

• The Telegraph:  Are you lot worried virtually the novel £20 note? You should be - Beatrix Potter appears to last a front-runner - in that place in 1 lawsuit again this could last people having a laugh!
• This is The Guardian take in on the novel £20 note: brand room for William Morris They're making a pitch for William Morris - surprise, suprise!
• The Manchester Evening News says Salford creative mortal LS Lowry is frontrunner to last the facial expression upward on the Bank of England's adjacent £20 banknote
• Unsurprisingly the Royal Photographic Society thinks a lensman should last the adjacent mortal to last on the £20 depository fiscal establishment complaint - come across Nominate a photography mortal for a novel banknote. They suggest suitable candidates mightiness include William Henry Fox Talbot, the British inventor of photography; Sir Cecil Beaton, lensman as well as designer or Julia Margaret Cameron, portraitist as well as fine art photographer.

I mean value past times directly you lot volition bring begun to appreciate that in that place are to a greater extent than or less rattling partial opinions out in that place as well as doubtless in that place volition last to a greater extent than or less pretty heavy duty lobbying on behalf of unlike involvement groups!

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