Roger Fry

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.

Life

Born in London, the son of the judge Edward Fry, he grew up in a wealthy Quaker family in Highgate. Fry was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles. After taking a first in the Natural Science tripos, he went to Paris and then Italy to study art. Eventually he specialised in landscape painting.

Roger Fry (educationist)

Sir Roger Fry, CBE is the Chairman of King's Group and is the President of COBIS Council of British International Schools. He has been a Director of the Independent Schools Council, is a Patron of the Royal Grammar School Worcester, and a Sir Thomas Pope Fellow of Trinity College Oxford. He is a member of the Educational Advisory Group of the British Council.

He is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, of the Order of Civil Merit of Spain and of the Order of Alfonso X El Sabio of Spain. He was Knighted in 2012.

References

External links

Roger Fry: A Biography

Roger Fry: A Biography is a biography of Roger Fry written by Virginia Woolf.