Abstract: Aesthetic modernity focuses on sensibility and desire, and stands in opposition to enlightenment modernity. It is a rational reversal and correction of the latter. The latter advocates rationality and instrumentality, which is the comprehensive conquest of nature and society by science and technology. As a "writer at the intersection of realism and modernism", the images of artists appear in many of Lawrence's novels, demonstrating distinct aesthetic modernity characteristics. In Women in Love, Lawrence portrays three kinds of artists: the lonely and arrogant adventurous artist Gudrun, the Bohemian London artists and the cold-blooded artist Loerke. These three types of artists contain deep connotations, corresponding to Lawrence's art view, the spokesman of decadence and the advocate of industrial civilization respectively, reflecting the writer's criticism of modern civilization and the aesthetic modernity of the respect for the philosophy of life.

Key words: Women in Love, image of artists, Gudrun, Loerke