Roger Fry

The connection was that Arnie's case officer at the time, a brave though snobbish career officer called Roger Fry, had been involved with Gloria Van Gent, as she then was.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

Take for instance Roger Fry's Omega studio, founded in London in 1913, where Bloomsbury artists designed fabrics and furniture in venetian reds, salmons and lemon yellows, to reflect the fresh air of the changing times, in direct rebellion against the formal antiques and heavy draperies of Victorian interiors.

The Rise of the Personal Katie Roiphe 2011

Giles Round and Phil Root's Grantchester Pottery for instance, mines the legacy of art and design crossovers like Roger Fry's Omega workshops, while Round's own creations look to brutalist concrete architecture for inspiration.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

Longhi, like the more critical Roger Fry, also believed him to be a key forerunner of the cinema.

The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011

Fortunately, the country's leading critic, Roger Fry, and his friends in the Bloomsbury Group recognized the artist's real genius, and included Picasso in Fry's groundbreaking Post-Impressionist exhibitions in 1910 and 1912.

A Shortsighted View of Picasso Paul Levy 2012

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

Another canvas also painted in 1913 provoked this comment from the critic Roger Fry, who, at great critical risk, had just introduced the art of Cézanne to a hostile British public: … one finds that after a time, the improvisations become more definite, more logical, more closely knit in structure, more surprisingly beautiful in their color oppositions, more exact in their equilibrium.

Kandinsky's Futurity 2009

Another canvas also painted in 1913 provoked this comment from the critic Roger Fry, who, at great critical risk, had just introduced the art of Cézanne to a hostile British public: … one finds that after a time, the improvisations become more definite, more logical, more closely knit in structure, more surprisingly beautiful in their color oppositions, more exact in their equilibrium.

Kandinsky's Futurity 2009

In London he settled at Hammersmith Terrace, where he became the friend of Edward Johnston, through whom he was brought into contact with Eric Gill, Roger Fry, and Cobden-Sanderson.

H.D.C. Pepler Part One 2008

Painting has existed for thousands of years but not until the eighteenth century did any moderate form of criticism begin in earnest and not until Roger Fry and the late nineteenth/early twentieth century critical/artistic circles like the Bloomsbury Group was any air of credibility given to them.

Rica is Coming - Pinky Violence is Here! 2007