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By the Bonnie Banks O' Fordie
Mackie, Charles Hodge, Oil painting
By the Bonnie Banks O' Fordie
By the Bonnie Banks O' Fordie
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Item no
20710
Title
By the Bonnie Banks O' Fordie
Description
The decorative and simplified style of this work shows three young women walking along a river bank. One girl to the left of the painting is bending to pick a wild white rose. All three girls wear long Victoria dresses with aprons of various decorations. The landscape behind shows a winding river with sheep grazing on the opposite river bank.
Artist / maker
Mackie, Charles Hodge
Size
62.0 x 91.0 cm
Type
Oil painting
Location
City Art Centre
Accession number
CAC1982/20
Charles Mackie was born in Aldershot and studied at the RSA schools in Edinburgh. In 1891 Mackie visited Paris and Brittany, where he was influenced by the work of Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School. The village of Pont-Aven, in the south-western part of the Breton peninsula, was a favourite destination for artists of many nationalities, especially for art students seeking a cheap place to live during the summer holidays. Artists such as Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard created their new Synthetist style, where form and colour for their own sakes came to have a value independent of traditional narrative.
By The Bonnie Banks of Fordie, which illustrates the Scottish ballad of the same title, has also been called by the poem's first line, 'There Were Three Maidens Pu'd Flower'.
The painting with its simplified forms and bright colours shows the influence of Pont- Aven School while retaining the romanticism of the original ballad.
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