Original artwork description:

'I want to give life and death, sanity and insanity. I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work at its most intense.' - Virginia Woolf
Here is an acrylic portrait of author Virginia Woolf painted upon the opening words of her innotive and landmark work, 'Mrs. Dalloway'.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint & Hagnemuhle Fine Art Paper

Tags:

#classism #portrait #art #vintage #modernism #book #words #text #profile #classic #mental health #literary influences #literature #social critique #illness #virginia woolf #high society #20th century #world war 1