Vanessa Bell’s talent is not one of the greatest in the history of painting. However, her work is bribed with joyful acceptance of life, and her creative path is honesty. After passing the post-impressionistic school and even graduating with honors, the artist easily abandoned the laurels of the leader of English post-impressionism, realizing that she should not look for herself in simplification of form and not in experiments with color. Her works of the post-impressionistic period are brilliant, but they do not have that “easiness of inspiration and exhalation” to which she aspired. And Bell goes further.
Can you name the changes that occurred in her style in the 1930s, the “return”? Yes and no. Yes – because it, in a certain sense, really comes back to what it once started. No – because now her style is enriched by the invaluable experience of “another vision.” Actually, the very concept of “return” as applied to the artist’s way always has a taste of defeat. The taste of victory in return appears only when it is a return to oneself, to the integrity of one’s creative self.
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