Roger Fry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roger Fry

English artist and art critic

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1866

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1934

Profession: curator, painter, university teacher, art historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Roger 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.



Alternative names	Roger Eliot Fry
Description	British curator, art historian, painter and university teacher
Date of birth/death	14 December 1866	9 September 1934
Location of birth/death	London	London
Work location	New York City; London (1881–1934)
Authority control	: Q547470 VIAF: 41884144 ISNI: 0000 0001 2129 7593 ULAN: 500005106 LCCN: n79072847 NLA: 35106239 WorldCat