Clive Bell

Most famously perhaps, expressivists such as Clive Bell and Roger Fry held that art should only seek to express and arouse emotions (Bell

Space, Blank, Uninterrupted 2009

The attraction and sense of appreciation that is produced by the vastly dissimilar artworks populating the exhibit's journey is primarily intellectual, not visceral, something that the 20th century critic Clive Bell would have pointed out as a hallmark of true art -- conclusively delimited from the easy, reflexive enjoyment of something that merely looks good.

Robert L. Powell: AbEx: Masterpieces From The Museum of Modern Art Robert L. Powell 2011

Overnight, Picasso became notorious—except to the Bloomsbury painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, whose work almost immediately reflected his influence; and to Bloomsbury groupies Clive Bell, Maynard Keynes and Harry Norton, who bought his work.

A Shortsighted View of Picasso Paul Levy 2012

The attraction and sense of appreciation that is produced by the vastly dissimilar artworks populating the exhibit's journey is primarily intellectual, not visceral, something that the 20th century critic Clive Bell would have pointed out as a hallmark of true art -- conclusively delimited from the easy, reflexive enjoyment of something that merely looks good.

Robert L. Powell: AbEx: Masterpieces From The Museum of Modern Art Robert L. Powell 2011

The attraction and sense of appreciation that is produced by the vastly dissimilar artworks populating the exhibit's journey is primarily intellectual, not visceral, something that the 20th century critic Clive Bell would have pointed out as a hallmark of true art -- conclusively delimited from the easy, reflexive enjoyment of something that merely looks good.

Robert L. Powell: AbEx: Masterpieces From The Museum of Modern Art Robert L. Powell 2011

The attraction and sense of appreciation that is produced by the vastly dissimilar artworks populating the exhibit's journey is primarily intellectual, not visceral, something that the 20th century critic Clive Bell would have pointed out as a hallmark of true art -- conclusively delimited from the easy, reflexive enjoyment of something that merely looks good.

Robert L. Powell: AbEx: Masterpieces From The Museum of Modern Art Robert L. Powell 2011

Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf's brother-in-law, coined the phrase "significant form" in 1914 and, along with Roger Fry, another Bloomsbury denizen, popularized the idea that form itself can convey and produce feeling.

Unfinished Perfection 2010

The British Library has released a new collection in its popular series of literary spoken word CDs, featuring rare and previously unreleased historic recordings by and about members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, John Lehmann, Desmond MacCarthy and Vita Sackville-West.

September 2009 2009

The British Library has released a new collection in its popular series of literary spoken word CDs, featuring rare and previously unreleased historic recordings by and about members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, John Lehmann, Desmond MacCarthy and Vita Sackville-West.

Hoaxing the Royal Navy, throwing butter at lunch and leaving a Cézanne in a hedge - The Bloomsbury Group in action 2009

Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, John M.ynard Keynes and E.M. Forster, and the critics Clive Bell and Fry, were influenced -- some more, some less -- by the Cambridge philosopher G.E. M.ore.

The Bohemians' Rhapsody 2009