biography
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| (1866–1934)
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| biography:
| Art critic, aesthetic philosopher, and painter, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and is mainly remembered for his support of the Postimpressionist movement in England. He propounded an extreme formal theory of aesthetics, seeing the aesthetic quality of a work of art solely in terms of its formal characteristics. He was director of the Museum of Art in New York City (1905–10). When he returned to London he organized a young artists' collective named the Omega Workshops (1913–19). He became professor of fine art at Cambridge in 1933. |
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