Nec Tecum Nec Sine Te: The Inseparability of Word and Image in Virginia Woolf

This article explores the interaction of verbal and visual art in Virginia Woolf’s fiction, exemplified by her novel, To Lighthouse. The narrative novel not only features scenes painting Ramsays’ portrait, but it unfolds as creative process advances concludes with Lily’s final stroke brush. While words are used to enact creation, serves both a frame basis for verbal. synergistic movement storytelling act picture “within narrative” is more than an interesting instance ekphrasis. In Lighthouse, operate like pictures—according Horace’s maxim, ut pictura poesis—and pictures work words. Art’s resonance extends beyond depicting painting. I examine aesthetic sensitivity talent relation Paul Cézanne’s Klee’s art. proximity between works two painters encourages us view role shape color seemingly separate arts space uncovering some vital truth about our being-in-the-word.