13 Facts About Scottish Renaissance

Scottish Renaissance was a mainly literary movement of the early to mid-20th century that can be seen as the Scottish version of modernism.

The writers and artists of the Scottish Renaissance displayed a profound interest in both modern philosophy and technology, as well as incorporating folk influences, and a strong concern for the fate of Scotland's declining languages.

Scottish Renaissance was the first Scots Makar, appointed by the inaugural Scottish government in 2004.

Scottish Renaissance increasingly concentrated on the novel, particularly after the 1930s when Hugh MacDiarmid was in isolation in Shetland and its leadership moved to novelist Neil Gunn.

Ideas of a distinctive modern Scottish Renaissance art were expressed in the inter-war period by figures including Stanley Cursiter, William McCance, William Johnstone and JD Fergusson.

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Scottish Renaissance went on to be a major painter of the coastline of his native Orkney, director of the National Gallery of Scotland and proposed the creation of a National Gallery of Modern Art in 1930.

Scottish Renaissance co-operated with MacDiarmid on the journal Scottish Art and Letters and MacDiarmid quoted extensively from his work.

Scottish Renaissance studied cubism, surrealism and was introduced to new American art by his wife the sculptor Flora Macdonald.

Scottish Renaissance moved towards abstraction, attempting to utilise aspects of landscape, poetry and Celtic art.

Ideas of the Scottish Renaissance were brought to classical music by Francis George Scott, MacDiarmid's former teacher, who set to music several of the poet's works.

Stevenson developed a musical idiom derived from Scottish Renaissance music, creating settings of folk songs including concertos for his instrument, the piano.

Scottish Renaissance adapted work by Scottish Renaissance poets such as MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean and William Soutar.

Scottish Renaissance was instrumental in the foundation of the Active Society for the Propagation of Contemporary Music, for which he brought leading composers to Glasgow to perform their work.