Giotto

by Roger Eliot Fry

Casi desde la nada, supo crear un arte capaz de expresar toda una gama de emociones humanas; supo encontrar la manera de tratar la materia de la vida con un estilo directo, dúctil y a la vez grandioso y heroico; supo adivinar por intuición casi todos los principios de la representación: Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) es el fenómeno más prodigioso de la historia del arte.

Genres: Art

72 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2014

About the author

Roger Eliot Fry was an English artist and art 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. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasized the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their depicted 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 changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry".

Reviews

[Patricia Camargo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ensaio brilhante. Primeiro que leio do Roger Fry e fiquei até sem fôlego! Só podia ser amigo da Virgínia Woolf 😉

[Tina]

Solo para MUY interesados. Texto de 1901