Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley (August 21, 1827– March 16, 1898)

*Background
-Born in Brighton.
-Attended Bristol Grammar School in 1884
-was an art editor for the first four editions and produced many illustrations for the magazine
-Closely aligned with Aestheticism, the British counterpart of Decadence and Symbolism.
-Most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica
-Die in Menton, France at March 16, 1898 of Turbeculosis.
-A public character as well as a private eccentric


*Style
- Most of his work is black and white
-Curved lines
-Patterned surface & contrasting voids
-Flatness of picture-plane
-Art Nouveau style

*Belief (weird…weird= =)
-He said, "I have one aim — the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing."

*Works

*The Reason I choose him
-His works is interesting and attractive.
-I like his personality& belief toward his work.

*References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/detail/Detail_beardsley_aubrey.html?noframe
http://search3.famsf.org:8080/view.shtml?keywords=%62%65%61%72%64%73%6C%65%79%20%61%75%62%72%65%79&artist=&country=&period=&sort=&start=1&position=1&record=60379