Library of the lost Jul 13, 2008
Roger Fry, drawing on Lewis's 1918 novel Tarr, emphasised the fact that works of art are a kind of living death animated through "forms and surfaces alone". To pose for Lewis was a dubious benefit. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Artist Sir Stanley Spencer May 15, 2008
At Slade, Spencer was influenced by lecturer Roger Fry, a member of the Bloomsbury group. Fry stressed the importance of Post-Impressionist painters such as Cezanne, Monet and Gaugin, and in 1910 he organized an exhibit of their works. (Suite101.com)
The Art of War Jan 27, 2008
Elinor, who will eventually quit the Slade to become a decorator of teapots at Roger Fry s Omega Workshops, drifts into the pacifist Bloomsbury circle I ve been to tea with Lady Ottoline Morrell. where Sassoon, in Barker s Regeneration, found confirmation for his own disgust with the war. (New York Times)
Real Brittania Dec 28, 2007
The Bloomsbury set is represented with several paintings and decorated tables by Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. In strident opposition to the mannered Bloomsbury style is the work of the World War I-influenced "vorticists" displayed in another sub-section. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Book Review: Aldous Huxley Dec 4, 2007
Huxley first visited Garsington Manor in 1915, meeting there and thereabouts Russell, Lawrence, Clive Bell, the art critic Roger Fry and the painter Duncan Grant, among others. A graduate of Eton and Balliol, he was made welcome until the publication of his first novel, "Crome Yellow" (1921), which seemed to Lady Ottoline to satirize her hospitality. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
In literary London, attempts at more perfect unions Sep 2, 2007
She and the art critic Roger Fry became lovers; then she took up with the mainly homosexual Duncan Grant. All four lived together, joined by Grant's lover David Garnett (who unsuccessfully propositioned Vanessa). (Boston Globe)
Which 19th-Century Painter Jun 24, 2007
Indeed, Beardsley s drawings earned him the term the Fra Angelico of Satanism by art critic Roger Fry ... Critic and art historian Roger Fry described these new influential ideas of "vision and design" in an attempt to understand and explain modern art as it broke away from traditional art. (Suite101.com)
Rachel Cohen on Leonard Woolf Nov 6, 2006
By 1931, Lytton Strachey had published Eminent Victorians and Queen Victoria, John Maynard Keynes The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Roger Fry Vision and Design, Edward Morgan Forster Howards End and (with Leonard Woolf s years of careful encouragement) A Passage to India, and Virginia Woolf, for whom her husband was bulwark and first reader, seven novels, including To the Lighthouse and, in 1931, The Waves, which was reviewed that same damped & disheartened day ... Their Cambridge set,... (New Yorker)
Cezanne's Bathers, Apples, Weird Libido Go on Display in London Exhibition Oct 6, 2006
Cezanne was revered by the critic Roger Fry and his Bloomsbury circle. Thanks to their advocacy and the efforts of a few other individuals, notably Samuel Courtauld, Britain ended up with a respectable array. (Bloomberg -- UK)
A fresh view Sep 30, 2006
The curator was a talented critic and connoisseur, Roger Fry, who also played a grandfatherly role in the family romance that was Bloomsbury. Virginia Woolf, in her often moving biography of Fry (one of the last things she wrote), gives an amusing sketch of the public reaction to the exhibition: stiffly upholstered old ladies tried to stifle their laughs and then gave way to helpless guffaws of abuse; portly gentlemen redly tut-tutted; letters of complaint to newspapers were written; prominent... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
France fetes grumpy old man Jul 29, 2006
The artist's brilliant and brutal portrait of his stern, disapproving old man Czanne eventually tried studying law in Aix to please him is "a little clumsy, perhaps," notes the great English painter and critic Roger Fry. But it shows Czanne finding an authority in his work that he would never achieve when confronting his father. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
True colours May 28, 2006
More significantly, Roger Fry, the art critic, was another cousin, and Roger's sister, Margery, was an encouraging friend to Hodgkin as a boy; he remembers visiting her house, which was filled with furniture from the Omega Workshop. This may be one reason among many that he paints on board (and even on found objects, like breadboards), and that his frames are part of the picture rather than a final embellishment. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Enriqueta Harris — authority on Spanish art May 20, 2006
Four paintings by El Greco, or attributed to him, on display in the gallery in 1913 led Roger Fry to publish a passionate appraisal of the originality of that artist. Later, in 1931 and again in 1938, there were major works by Velzquez and Goya on exhibition in the family gallery. (TimesOnline)
The next blockbuster exhibition: Cézanne - A life in pictures Feb 15, 2006
But thanks to pioneer collectors such as the economist John Maynard Keynes and champions such as the critic Roger Fry, the UK has ended up with one of the world's most outstanding collections of his work. Now 40 paintings, drawings and prints tracing the development of his art are to be brought together this autumn for a free exhibition at the National Gallery in London to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the artist's death in 1906 aged 67. (The Independent, UK)
