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Clive Bell English critic and writer on art Clive Bell was born on September 16, 1881, in East Shefford, Bedfordshire, England. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he befriended the writers and artists that later became the Bloomsbury group. Throughout his career as a writer and art critic, Bell would be identified as part of this group both by close association and aesthetic sense. In 1907 he married Vanessa Stephen, the painter and elder sister of Virginia Woolf. They had two sons, Julian and Quentin. Bell was an early champion of modern art and an important art critic as a result of his objective style. Bell's friendship with Roger Fry contributed to the development of Bell's artistic theory of "significant form" which he explained in his book Art (1914). Bell's other volumes of art criticism include Since Cezanne (1922), Account of French Painting (1932) and Enjoying Pictures: Meditations in the National Gallery and Elsewhere (1934). Bell died
in London in 1964
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