The Resume

(December 14, 1866-September 9, 1934)
Born in London, United Kingdom
Artist and art critic
Appointed curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1906)
Named Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University (1933)
Wrote 'Heresies of an Artist' (1921), 'Transformations' (1926), 'Cezanne: A Study of His Development' (1927), 'Henri Matisse' (1930), 'French Art' (1932) and 'Reflections on British Painting' (1934)

Why he might be annoying:

He majored in science in college to please his father.
He had an affair with Vanessa Bell when they were both married to other people.
Virginia Woolf said of his writing style, 'He never hesitates to spoil the shape of a sentence by tagging on a 'namely' or a 'that is to say.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He coined the term 'post-Impressionism.'
He was credited with introducing the British public to the art of Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet and Matisse.
Art historian Kenneth Clark called him 'the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ... In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Painters
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 54]
• I am a Quaker
• I Attended Cambridge
• I Died in 1934 (Ranked: 67)
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• I was Cremated
• I Was Hot For My Student
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• Painters
• Profiles 35751-36000 (Ranked: 35797)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying