This thesis tries to explore the influences of Post-impressionist painting factors on Woolf’s masterpiece To the Lighthouse, probing how Woolf combines painting with literature to promote a kind of aesthetic effect in a novel, enriching the studies on Virginia Woolf.

This paper analyzed the distinction and sameness between painting drawing and designing drawing from the aspects of training purpose ,exhibiting objects, observing method , composing methods, composing procedures, composing exhibiting ways and space notion ,in order to understand special values and fundamental demands for painting and drawing majors in drawing teaching.