The Arran branch of the Saltire Society recently held their penultimate event of the season at the Arran Lodge at Altachorvie. The Saltire Society celebrates Scottish culture in all its different manifestations.
A very healthy audience of some 40 people heard with interest local artist and Corrie resident John Inglis talked with authority and dry wit about the historical background to and the influences of The Glasgow Boys, that loosely affiliated group of Glasgow painters who defined a Scottish painterly style between the 1880s and the early 1900s.
In this slide-illustrated event, John talked about how the Scottish art collective were effectively re-acting against a grandiose Victorian sentimentality and melodrama in painting. That in a way they wanted to reverse the old order of the high classical and the picturesque for a more intimate vision of life.