Johan Zoffany RA: Sociedade Observada

The Sharp Family, 1779–81. Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 125.7 cm. By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Lloyd-Baker Trustees



Royal Academy of Arts
The Sackler Wing of Galleries
10 março - 10 junho 2012


 
The Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1772–7. Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 155 cm. The Royal Collection, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Photo The Royal Collection © 2011, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Johan Zoffany RA: Sociedade Observada constituirá uma radical re-avaliação da extraordinária vida e carreira deste artista brilhante e enigmático.

Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed will constitute a radical re-evaluation of the extraordinary life and career of this brilliant and enigmatic artist.




The Portraits of the Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771–2. Oil on canvas, 100.1 x 147.5 cm. The Royal Collection, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Photo The Royal Collection © 2011, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Nascido perto de Frankfurt em 1733, Zoffany se mudou para Londres em 1760. Adaptando-se à arte e cultura nativas e os padrões de mecenato, ele criou retratos virtuosos e imagens que provaram ser altamente desejáveis para uma ampla gama de clientes, incluindo o ator David Garrick e a corte de George III.

Born near Frankfurt in 1733, Zoffany moved to London in 1760. Adapting to the indigenous art culture and patterns of patronage, he created virtuoso portraits and subject pictures that proved to be highly desirable to a wide range of patrons including the actor David Garrick and the court of George III.




Queen Charlotte, 1771. Oil on canvas, 163.8 x 137.5 cm. The Royal Collection, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Photo The Royal Collection © 2011, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Membro nomeado da Academia Real, o seu trabalho oferece uma avaliação de valor inestimável e, muitas vezes única de importantes instituições britânicas e edifícios: a academia de arte, o Tribunal, o teatro, a família burguesa, e do Império Britânico.

A nomination member of the Royal Academy, his work provides an invaluable and often unique appraisal of key British institutions and edifices: the art academy; the Court; the theatre; the bourgeois family; and the British Empire.



David with the Head of Goliath, 1756. Oil on canvas, 92.2 x 74.7 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with assistance of the Isabella Mary Curnick Bequest and The Art Foundation of Victoria, 1994


De todos os grandes artistas em produção na Inglaterra do século XVIII, nenhum explorou mais inventivamente os interstícios da sociedade georgiana e as complexidades do governo imperial britânico do que Johan Zoffany.

Of all the major artists at work in eighteenth-century England, none explored more inventively the interstices of Georgian society and the complexities of British imperial rule than Johan Zoffany.



The Portraits of the Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771–2. Oil on canvas, 100.1 x 147.5 cm. The Royal Collection, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Photo The Royal Collection © 2011, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

A exposição contará com mais de 60 pinturas a óleo, e uma seleção de desenhos e gravuras de coleções britânicas e internacionais, públicas e privadas, algumas das quais raramente ou nunca expostas antes.


The exhibition will feature over 60 oil paintings, and a selection of drawings and prints from British and international public and private collections, a number of which have rarely or never been exhibited before.

 

Mr and Mrs Garrick by the Shakespeare Temple at Hampton, c. 1762. Oil on canvas, 109.9 x 134.6 cm. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Match, 1784–86.

As obras testemunham a importância central de Zoffany para a cultura artística da Europa do século XVIII.

The works testify to the central importance of Zoffany to the artistic culture of eighteenth-century Europe.



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