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11 de jun. de 2024 · Like any self-portrait, Portrait of Himself in Bed is a vehicle for self-reflection. However, the self-reflection manifested in this work is ideological rather than visual. In Portrait of Himself in Bed, Beardsley critiques the censorship of his work at The Yellow Book, and examines his complicity in it. Figure 1. Ed.
Hace 4 días · The Art of Aubrey Beardsley. The illustrator-author’s short but illustrious career established his name as one of the most important graphic artists of the late 19th century. By Jennifer Kinnaird. June 17, 2024.
11 de jun. de 2024 · At 22 years old, Aubrey Beardsley was in the midst of one of the most prosperous periods of his short life, thanks to regular employment with the quarterly artistic and literary periodical The Yellow Book (fig. 1).
Hace 4 días · “The Climax” is a woodblock print on paper by the English Aesthetic artist, Aubrey Beardsley, from 1894. This is one of 16 images that Beardsley was commissioned to illustrate for Oscar Wilde’s play, Salomé. These illustrations helped cement Beardsley’s career.
28 de may. de 2024 · In England the style’s immediate precursors were the Aestheticism of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, who depended heavily on the expressive quality of organic line, and the Arts and Crafts movement of William Morris, who established the importance of a vital style in the applied arts.
Hace 4 días · While it is true that the psychotic protagonist of “The Black Cat” (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) does regard both of his cats—“Pluto,” whom he blinds by gouging out one eye, then hangs, as well as its successor—as malevolent creatures, Beardsley created a cat that was positively demonic.
28 de may. de 2024 · Featured in the current exhibition, Something Terrible May Happen: The Art of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward “Ned” I.R. Jennings, Aubrey Beardsley depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic at the turn of the century, defining the British Aestheticism movement and disturbing the social mores of the Victorian Era.
