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In the same tone, Surrealism sought to expose and illustrate unconscious fear in a way that Brooks pre-figures in her drawings on paper. Her intense interest in portraiture supported the emerging study of psychoanalysis, a practice whereby individual identity for the first time was scrutinized.

Brooks contributed to many significant art movements and trends in thinking at the time.

However another plausible influence is the invention and subsequent increase in use of photography at this point photography was executed only in black and white and variant hews of grey, and like the pictures of Brooks, the new medium sought to successfully illuminate the spirit of the sitter. On the one hand, the absence of color in Brooks' paintings could stand as a mark of melancholy the shadow that she says had been cast over her life since childhood. Her work is thus similar in tone and comparable to that of her fellow American (and fellow émigré to Europe), James McNeill Whistler.

Brooks established a signature palette of soft and subdue grey.

Both women resolutely fought for independence in mind and finance, and understood that their dedicated artistic pursuit came at great price Woolf famously committed suicide and although Brooks lived to the glorious age of 96, she tragically titled her lifetime memoirs No Pleasant Memories. In this respect Brooks' struggle to be free has much in common with her English contemporary, the writer, Virginia Woolf. Thus many of Brook's notable paintings depict androgynous figures, out in the world infused with heroism and purpose rather than bound and hidden by domesticity.

The way to succeed at the time, or perhaps simply to be noticed was to mimic masculine appearance and to renounce femininity for all of its restriction and expectation. As a practicing artist pre-first World War, this was a moment in history when women did not have the right to vote and as such did not have the due respect or the same opportunities as men. Romaine Brooks was part of the first generation of revolutionary and openly bohemian female artists.