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Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition Programme 2012
23 December 2011 by Nicky
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS EXHIBITON PROGRAMME
2012
By Molly Price-Owen
It's going to be a busy year in 2012. Apart from the Olympics,
we have the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and Charles Dickens is 200
years old. And the Royal Academy of Arts is looking forward to a
cracking year with exciting new exhibitions on the horizon.
January, the Academy will present the first major
exhibition in the U.K. to showcase David
Hockney's landscape work; vivid paintings inspired by Yorkshire
landscape, many large in scale and created specifically for the
exhibition will be shown alongside related drawings, films and ipad
drawings. Through a selection of around 200 works spanning fifty
years this display will be placed in the context of Hockney's
extended exploration of and fascination with landscape.
In March the Academy will constitute a radical re-evaluation of
the life and work of Johan Zoffany… not perhaps the best known of
artists in the U.K., although, being born in Frankfurt (1733) he
moved to London and adapted to the indigenous art and culture.
The exhibition will feature oil paintings and a selection of
drawings, a number of which have been rarely or never exhibited
before.
The famous annual Summer exhibition takes place in June - the
world's largest open art show. It showcases work by
both emerging and established artists in all media.
In July, Collectors Sterling and Francine Clark will loan 72
works : 'A TASTE FOR IMPRESSIONISM' . This comprises 72 exhibits,
including 35 Renoirs, masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Pisarro, Degas
among others.
'BRONZE'
comes in September: 150 global pieces from antiquity to
modern day will be shown in a thematic arrangement. It will be
totally cross culture ranging from
Asia, Africa and Europe: the medieval period offers rare
survivals and the Renaissance too, in works of Donatello, Cellini
among others.
Works by Rodin, Picasso, Giacometti, Moore will also be on
display.
No such cross-cultural exhibition on this scale has ever been
attempted.