Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 - March 16, 1898) is an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by Japanese wooden pieces, emphasize cruelty, decadence, and eroticism. He is a prominent figure in the Aesthetic movement which also includes Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of Art Nouveau styles and posters is significant, despite the brevity of his career before his first death from tuberculosis.
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Beardsley was born in Brighton, England, on August 21, 1872, and was baptized on October 24, 1872. His father Vincent Paul Beardsley (1839-1909), was the son of a merchant; Vincent has no trade of his own, and relies on personal income from the inheritance he received from his maternal grandfather when he was 21 years old. Vincent's wife, Ellen Agnus Pitt (1846-1932), was the daughter of Surgeon-Major William Pitt of the Indian Army. The Pitts is an established and respected family in Brighton, and Beardsley's mother marries a man with a lower social status than expected. Immediately after their marriage, Vincent was forced to sell part of his property to settle claims for "breach of appointment" from another woman who claimed he had promised to marry her. At the time of his birth, the Beardsley family, which included his sister, Mabel, one year older, lived in the Ellen family house at 12 Buckingham Road. The number of houses on Buckingham Road is 12, but the number changed a few years ago, and now 31.
In 1883, his family settled in London, and the following year he appeared in public as a "baby music phenomenon", playing at several concerts with his sister. In January 1885 he began attending Brighton, Hove, and Sussex Grammar School, where he would spend the next four years. His first poems, drawings and cartoons appeared in print in "Past and Present", the school magazine. In 1888 he obtained a post in the architect's office, and then one at the Guardian Life and Insurance Company. In 1891, under the advice of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, he took art as a profession. In 1892 he attended classes at the Westminster Art School, then under Professor Fred Brown.
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In 1892, Beardsley went to Paris, where he discovered the poster art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and the Parisian fashion for Japanese prints, both of which would be a major influence on his own style. Beardsley's first commission was Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory (1893), which he illustrated for publisher J.M Dent and Company.
His creative outcomes for six years can be divided into several periods, identified by his signature form. In the early period of work most of the time it was not signed. During 1891 and 1892 he developed his initials, AVB In mid-1892, the period of Le Morte d'Arthur and The Bon Mots he used an influenced mark Japan is becoming more graceful, sometimes accompanied by AB in the capital city of the block. He co-founded the Yellow Book with American writer Henry Harland, and for the first four editions he served as Art Editor and produced a cover design and many illustrations for magazines. He is also closely associated with Aestheticism, the British counterpart of Decadence and Symbolism. Most of the drawings are made with ink and feature large dark areas that contrast with large blanks, and fine detail areas contrast with nonexistent areas.
Beardsley is the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, famous for its dark and wicked images and terrible erotica, which is the main theme of his later works. The illustrations are black and white, with a white background. Some of its images, inspired by Japanese shunga artwork, feature very large genitals. The most famous erotic illustrations are historical and mythological themes; this includes his illustrations for the personal print edition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata , and his image for Oscar Wilde Salome , which was finally aired in Paris in 1896. Project illustration including the 1896 edition of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, and the Fifty Picture Collection by Aubrey Beardsley (1897).
He also produced many illustrations for books and magazines (eg for the deluxe edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur) and worked for magazines like The Studio and The Savoy , where he was one of the founders. As one of the founders of The Savoy, Beardsley was able to pursue his writings and illustrations, and a number of his writings, including Under the Hill (a story based on TannhÃÆ'¤user's legend) and "The Ballad of a Barber" appeared in the magazine.
Beardsley is a caricature and does some political cartoons, reflecting Wilde's wild brilliance in art. Beardsley's works reflect the decadence of his time and his influence is enormous, clearly seen in the French Symbolic works, the Poster Art Movement of the 1890s, and the work of many Art Nouveau artists in recent times such as Pape and Clarke. Some of Beardsley's alleged work was published in a book titled Picture Fifty by Aubrey Beardsley, Selected From Collection of Mr. H. S. Nicols . These were later found to be counterfeits, distinguished by their almost pornographic erotic elements, rather than the rather assertive use of Beardsley's sexuality.
Beardsley's work continued to cause controversy in England shortly after his death. During the Beardsley print exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1966, a private gallery in London was raided by police for displaying copies of the same prints on display at the museum, and its owners prosecuted under obscenity laws.
Personal life
Beardsley is both public and eccentric. He said, "I have one goal - that's horrible, if I'm not weird, I'm nobody." Wilde says he has "a face like a silver ax, and grass green hair." Beardsley was very conscientious about his clothes: a gray suit, a hat, a tie; yellow gloves. He will appear in his publisher in his morning coat and patent leather pump.
Although Beardsley is associated with homosexual clicks that include Oscar Wilde and other English aesthetics, the details of his sexuality remain questionable. It is generally regarded as asexual. Speculations about his sexuality include rumors of an incestuous relationship with his older sister, Mabel, who may be pregnant by her sister and miscarriage. During his career, Beardsley suffered recurrent tuberculosis attacks. She often experiences lung bleeding and is often unable to work or leave her home.
Beardsley switched to Roman Catholicism in March 1897, and then appealed to his publisher, Leonard Smithers and his close friend Herbert Charles Pollitt, to "destroy all copies of Lysistrata and bad images... by all the holy all obscene images. "The two men ignored Beardsley's wishes, and Smithers actually went on to sell Beardsley's reproduction and forgery.
Death
In 1897 his deteriorating health prompted his move to the French Riviera, where he died a year later on March 16, 1898 from tuberculosis at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Menton, France, attended by his mother and sister. He is only 25 years old. After the Requiem Mass at Menton Cathedral the following day, his body was buried in an adjacent cemetery.
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