There is a really strong
relationship between art and life. Life itself is an art. Like an art of
living, the art of fighting against difficulties and chaos, the art of keeping
others happy by hiding our tears, the art of finding yourself, the art of
realizing the truth of life and truth in life, and the art of raising your
voice against oppression. A man realizes facts of life only when he can conquer
himself and this is the ascension of human art of living, and for abstract art
as well. And the true artist is always aware of himself or herself. Any art
cannot be created without knowing the truth, and this interpretation of the
reality of life is only one part of real art. It implies that:
In her novel To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf portrayed a required balance in life and art. It gives us a
learning technique from multiple perspectives' ideas to view life. This novel
is divided into 3 parts, Window, Time, and the Lighthouse.Art is long and life is short.
Mrs. Ramsay starts this novel and
Lily Briscoe closes it. In part one, the life dominates is almost twice the
length of part three in which art is the main theme. The character of Mrs.
Ramsay is Sympathetic, charitable, and hospitable. She is beautiful, having a
charming and attractive personality. She wants men and women to unite and
become fruitful like herself. That is why, as a matchmaker, she wants Lily to
marry Mr. Banks to get her important purpose in life. One more thing about her
character that makes her a perfect lady is her great sense of humor because
laughter is the only person who can control crying after knowing that what life
is. Her character shows her realization and is standing of this fact:
Life is a beautiful art that
maintains a balance between relationships, and all other responsibilities
around us.
She was not a philosopher like
her husband, Mr. Ramsey, and nor like Lily Briscoe, an artist, but she was
really satisfied with herself. She is happy with her performance because she
prepared a field for herself in which she was a successful housewife. On the
other side, Mr. Ramsey and Lily Briscoe were not satisfied persons, and they
both were finding themselves. In fact, they were unaware of the connection
between life and art till before arriving at the Lighthouse. In the last part as
they arrived at the lighthouse they both had learned the ability to see the
world from different perspectives. Mr. Ramsey had gotten rid of his egoism and
won his children’s hearts. He hastily used his knowledge and intellectualism, make
human relationships successful.
Lilly Briscoe was an immature and imperfect artist. Art opens your heart and feeds your mind. Art provides an opportunity to exercise critical thinking, a renewed self-awareness, and potentially even a deeper connection to others, and their experiences, as we share what we feel and tried to Interpret what we see.
She wanted to make a portrait of
Mrs. Ramsay but it took ten years to complete. When she arrived at a lighthouse
she found a solution to her aesthetic problem and without Mrs. Ramsay’s
physical appearance she painted her, and she said, “I have had my vision.” She
enjoyed the feeling of completeness. When she found a relationship between life
and art, and at the same time she became a real artist just like Mr. Ramsay who
had also experienced at the lighthouse the real art of life now he found the
balance in his successful professional and his practical life.
Lily Briscoe's artistic
achievements suggest a larger sense of completeness, and she felt united with
Mr. Ramsay's victory in his family life by his egoistic sacrifice. In this
novel, the lighthouse beam has symbols of subjective and objective approaches
to life. Perhaps for the same reason, those people arrived at the lighthouse and became awarded for both aspects of life.
Concluding the discussion,
Virginia Woolf covers twenty years in just twenty pages but everything has
changed during this time, Mr. Ramsay, his children, and Lily Briscoe because
all the people get their answers in life, not only did their thinking change,
but their whole life changed.
Life is a question and how we
live it is an answer. (Gray Keller)
When Lily Briscoe said that it
was finished, Virginia Woolf also finished her novel at the same time, both
women had completed their artwork.
This article is written by MadihaNaz, one of the contributors at the School of Literature.
