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Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes and Bloomsbury Modernism: Visual Aesthetics and Cultural Encounter

"Lily Briscoe’s abstract portrait of Mrs. Ramsay in Virginia Woolf’s 1927 masterpiece To the Lighthouse—famously described as featuring “Chinese eyes” and a triangular purple shape—serves as a pivotal textual nexus for exploring Bloomsbury modernism, cross-cultural visual motifs, and the shifting paradigms of early twentieth-century art. This article examines how Virginia Woolf integrates orientalist visual tropes, Post-Impressionist aesthetic theories, and the intellectual currents of the Bloomsbury Group to redefine narrative and visual representation. The Genesis of Lily Briscoe’s Painting in To the Lighthouse To understand the significance..."

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