Mackintosh MacDonald Gesso Panels

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Description	Scottish artists, Dai and Jenny Vaughan recently exhibited their gesso (pronounced jess-oh) panels at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Church in Glasgow. Inspired by The Seven Princesses, a piece of gesso work originally produced by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh in 1906, this commissioned art work was exhibited in the historic Glasgow church. The original gesso panels were commissioned by Fritz Warndorfer, for his music Room in Vienna. Margaret and her husband, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, designed the panel especially for Fritz in 1902. The panel represents the play The Seven Princesses, a work written by Maurice Maeterlink who was one of the Mackintoshes' favourite authors. Gesso is an artist's medium made up primarily of Plaster of Paris and its use dates back as far as ancient Egyptian times, when it was used to prepare wooden panels for painting from about 2000BC.
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