Painting in Woolf

Abstract

The turn of the twentieth century and the early 1900s brought radical changes to the world in various areas and, as it usually occurs, art was no exception. The whirling period of revolutionary ideas brought new perspective into Modernist arts. Artists wanted to see the world and communicate it in another manner so they felt the need for different expressive modes. Their new means of expression, their new “language” to that became to be that of visuality and the mixing of arts. In my thesis I attempt to analyse this new “language” in Virginia Woolf’s two novels To the Lighthouse and The Waves, the two novels where the interrelationship and interdependence between literature and painting is represented.