ABSTRACT
Virginia Woolf’s exaggerated sense of a change having taken place in human character ‘in or about December 1910’ 1 was related in part to her feeling about living in what she called ‘a Post-Impressionist age’. 2 Human character may not have changed with the advent in Britain of Post-Impressionist painting, but the language and discourse of art certainly underwent substantial modification, and the vocabulary and grammar of painting which had been evolving in France seemed, from a British point of view, to overthrow established traditions and stable artistic values.
