Roger Fry
(1866-1934)
artist and art critic
Died aged c. 68
Wikidata WikipediaRoger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ...In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry". The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde.
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Commemorated on 2 plaques
In this house Roger Fry 1866-1934 artist and art critic ran the Omega Workshops 1913-1919
33 Fitzroy Square, London, United Kingdom where they ran the Omega Workshops
Roger Fry 1866-1934 Artist and Art Critic lived and died at 48 Bernard Street on this site 1926-1934
48 Bernard Street, London, United Kingdom where they was