The Bloomsbury Group was a loose collective of artists, writers and thinkers in early 20th century Britain who had gone to the same universities and socialised together in the same groups. What made them different to most upper class social circles of the time was that many of them went on to be the famous figures of the century, including writer Virginia Woolf and economist John Maynard Keynes. Artipelag’s new exhibition Bloomsbury Spirit collects together the history of the group and explores the attitudes they shared that made so many of them revolutionary figures in the new century, a group that sensed and adopted to many waves of modernism early and left their contemporaries trying to catch up.
On display between March 23 – September 30
Photo: Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner and Vanessa Bell. Copyright: National Portrait Gallery
