Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Roger Fry
Born: December 14, 1866
Died: September 9, 1934 (aged 67)
Bio: Roger Eliot Fry 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.
Known for:
- Vision and design (1920)
- A Roger Fry reader
- Cézanne, a study of his development (1927)
- Last lectures
- French, Flemish, and British art
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