Roger Eliot Fry (16 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a enthusiast of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an militant of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the reveal Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to lift public watchfulness of unprejudiced art in Britain, and emphasised the formal properties of paintings greater than 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 distorted by one man, it was distorted 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 explanation of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde.
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