Yale Centre for British Art presents “Britain in the World,” after completing the third phase of the multiyear building conservation projects.“Britain in the world” restores a nineteenth century masterpiece of modern architecture by Louis I. Kahn. The building conservation renews the art of the nineteenth century architecture as well as showcases a reimagined installation of the institution’s founder Paul Mellon’s collection of timeless classics which is presently owned by the center. The works on display numbers to more than five hundred and are now on installed in the recently reconstructed galleries on the third and fourth floors.The exhibition traces the growth of the British school of arts and explores that the evolution of British art-forms were formed through its legacy of international exchange. The designs of the installations attend to the various impacts of immigration and travel of British art and cultural practices, across the centuries. And the idea also addresses the role that the artistic exchange and cultural cohabitation have played in the history of Britain’s imperial vision investigating the different causality that might have impacted the perception of the British Empire and influenced how Britons saw themselves and others.The exhibition features some of the prodigal pieces, like the Netherlandish artists who has contributed a great deal towards founding and establishing the soul of the British art in the Tudor period (1485–1603), and the seventeenth-century Flemish artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, the eighteenth-century Italian artist Canaletto, the German artist Johan Zoffany, and American artists John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West.The installation of these paintings is chronologically designed and follows a number of themes. On the fourth floor, the featuring artworks include “Becoming Great Britain” (1550–1688); “A Commercial Society” (1688–1750); “Rule Britannia?” (1750–1775); “Art and the Market” (1775–1800); “Revolution and Reaction” (1800–1820); and “The Age of Unease” (1820–1850). The timeline continues on the third floor with “A New Age”(1850–1900); “Going Modern”, “Being British” (1900–1945); “The End of Empire” (1945–1979); and Postmodern Britain (1979–present).The installation is on view from May 11, 2016 through December 31, 2017 at Yale Center for British art, 1080 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06510.For details, visit: http://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions/things-beauty-growing-british-studio-potteryClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the pottery artworks.
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