Virginia Woolf dedicated herself to portraying the inner world of human beings, seeking experiments with new techniques, while defying the existing realism led by the contemporary representative male writers. As several critics noted in one of Woolf's best-known phrases, “On or about December 1910 h...
Virginia Woolf dedicated herself to portraying the inner world of human beings, seeking experiments with new techniques, while defying the existing realism led by the contemporary representative male writers. As several critics noted in one of Woolf's best-known phrases, “On or about December 1910 human character changed.”, two events that happened in 1910 had a significant impact on her efforts to represent the inner side of human beings in her fiction. The two events were the first Post-Impressionist Exhibition held at the Grafton Gallery, in London, and women's suffrage movement which culminated in that year. First, Woolf challenged those traditional male writers who wrote realism novels, and simultaneously pursued her own subjective reality, by refusing realistic techniques of Impressionism which captured momentary and sensual impressions as lights changed and by adopting the Post-Impressionistic aesthetics in her novel writing which attempted to identify things fundamental and essential by concentrating on the attributes of objects. Second, women's suffrage movement was a challenge to the existing patriarchal order and authority that had excluded women from political areas. Woolf, dismissing the Victorian female image as "the Angel of the House", participated in the women's suffrage movement and tried to put her feminism into practice in the area of literature. Woolf's feminist attitude is reflected on her acceptance of the Post-Impressionist aesthetics. She lived out the aesthetics of the Post-Impressionism by adopting Roger Fry's Formalism. The Formalism of Roger Fry, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, concentrated on abstract forms and refusal of imitation. Woolf was also greatly influenced by Vanessa Bell, Woolf's artist sister, in the practical areas of creation. Both Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell experimented with and applied the aesthetics of the Post-Impressionism to literature and art in order to assert and effectively express their objections to the existing art theories. That is, Virginia attempted to separate herself from the traditional novels with realistic plots which stressed on male-oriented perspectives, conventional narrative techniques and description of external facts, and Vanessa took similar directions in her abstrect paintings. Lily Brisco, woman artist in To the Lighthouse, refused the impressionist techniques which were popular at that time, and painted Mrs. Ramsay's portrait using abstract techniques of the Post-Impressionism. She turned down Mrs. Ramsay's urge to marry, overcame Charles Tansley's abasement of women, and succeeded in establishing her identity as a woman painter. In Lily, we can find a feminist artist who practises the Post-Impressionist aesthetics. Therefore, it is possible to say that Lily, an artist figure who represents Woolf's voice in the novel, succeeds in penetrating the inner self of Mrs. Ramsay, and it is also the success of Woolf as the writer, who portrays the evolution of Lily as a feminist painter.
Virginia Woolf dedicated herself to portraying the inner world of human beings, seeking experiments with new techniques, while defying the existing realism led by the contemporary representative male writers. As several critics noted in one of Woolf's best-known phrases, “On or about December 1910 human character changed.”, two events that happened in 1910 had a significant impact on her efforts to represent the inner side of human beings in her fiction. The two events were the first Post-Impressionist Exhibition held at the Grafton Gallery, in London, and women's suffrage movement which culminated in that year. First, Woolf challenged those traditional male writers who wrote realism novels, and simultaneously pursued her own subjective reality, by refusing realistic techniques of Impressionism which captured momentary and sensual impressions as lights changed and by adopting the Post-Impressionistic aesthetics in her novel writing which attempted to identify things fundamental and essential by concentrating on the attributes of objects. Second, women's suffrage movement was a challenge to the existing patriarchal order and authority that had excluded women from political areas. Woolf, dismissing the Victorian female image as "the Angel of the House", participated in the women's suffrage movement and tried to put her feminism into practice in the area of literature. Woolf's feminist attitude is reflected on her acceptance of the Post-Impressionist aesthetics. She lived out the aesthetics of the Post-Impressionism by adopting Roger Fry's Formalism. The Formalism of Roger Fry, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, concentrated on abstract forms and refusal of imitation. Woolf was also greatly influenced by Vanessa Bell, Woolf's artist sister, in the practical areas of creation. Both Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell experimented with and applied the aesthetics of the Post-Impressionism to literature and art in order to assert and effectively express their objections to the existing art theories. That is, Virginia attempted to separate herself from the traditional novels with realistic plots which stressed on male-oriented perspectives, conventional narrative techniques and description of external facts, and Vanessa took similar directions in her abstrect paintings. Lily Brisco, woman artist in To the Lighthouse, refused the impressionist techniques which were popular at that time, and painted Mrs. Ramsay's portrait using abstract techniques of the Post-Impressionism. She turned down Mrs. Ramsay's urge to marry, overcame Charles Tansley's abasement of women, and succeeded in establishing her identity as a woman painter. In Lily, we can find a feminist artist who practises the Post-Impressionist aesthetics. Therefore, it is possible to say that Lily, an artist figure who represents Woolf's voice in the novel, succeeds in penetrating the inner self of Mrs. Ramsay, and it is also the success of Woolf as the writer, who portrays the evolution of Lily as a feminist painter.
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