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  Aubrey Beardsley - Biography
Aubrey Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which themes he explored in his later work.
Beardsley's work reflected the decadence of his era and his influence was enormous, clearly visible in the work of the French Symbolists, the Poster Art Movement of the 1890s and the work of many later-period Art Nouveau artists like Pape, Mucha and Clarke.
Beardsley died of tuberculosis in Menton, France at the age of 25 on March 16, 1898.
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 Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which were the main themes of his later work.
Beardsley's work reflected the decadence of his era and his influence was enormous, clearly visible in the work of the French Symbolists, the Poster art Movement of the 1890s and the work of many later-period Art Nouveau artists like Pape and Clarke.
Beardsley was active till his death in Menton, France at the age of 25 on March 16, 1898.
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 Aubrey Beardsley Collection
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in Brighton on 21 August 1872 and early showed artistic ability, acting and playing in concerts with his sister Mabel and producing drawings of recognized merit.
At the age of nineteen Aubrey Beardsley embarked on a career as an illustrator, and with the encouragement of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in France and Joseph Pennell in England he quickly made a name for himself.
The Aubrey Beardsley materials comprise a large group of letters Beardsley wrote to his patron André Raffalovich and others between 1893 and Beardsley's death in 1898, together with a larger body of letters art scholar R. Walker wrote to Beardsley collector A. Severn between 1943 and 1959.
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 Aubrey Beardsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Beardsley defenders gleefully noted that the originals of these drawings had been on display at the staid Victoria and Albert Museum, just miles from the shop, for the previous two months.
Born in 1872 to a middle-class family with few prospects, Beardsley was, by the time he was seven, already showing signs of the tuberculosis that was to cause his death at 25.
Beardsley raised eyebrows as well as ire: his notoriety spread rapidly, and in 1894 he became the art editor of the infamous Yellow Book, a high-toned literary magazine with a self-imposed mandate to shock.
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 Aubrey Beardsley - MSN Encarta
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), English artist, whose sensitive, highly imaginative style and hedonistic, occasionally macabre subject matter place him within the European fin-de-siècle artistic movement.
Beardsley, born in Brighton, briefly attended the Westminster School of Art in London.
Beardsley was art editor of the celebrated periodical The Yellow Book (1894-1895) and of The Savoy (1896); both of these publications featured his work.
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 The Hindu : Metro Plus Hyderabad / Arts & Crafts : Who is Aubrey Beardsley?
Born on August 21, 1872 in Brighton, England, Aubrey Beardsley was a consummate artist in his chosen field of pen and ink drawings and had an everlasting effect on poster art.
Aubrey had retired there to improve his health and even though the two were in the same town for over a year, they never met.
Aubrey was not concerned so much with making an illusion of reality as much as he wished to fill the given space with beautiful patterns and designs.
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 Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 1898)
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872, Brighton, England - March 16, 1898, Menton, France) was an influential English artist, illustrator, and author.
Beardsley's images are usually done in ink, and feature large dark areas contrasted with large blank ones, and areas of fine detail contrasted with areas with none at all.
Beardsley was a public character as well as a private eccentric.
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 Aubrey Beardsley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aubrey Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which themes he explored in his later work.
Beardsley's work reflected the decadence of his era and his influence was enormous, clearly visible in the work of the French Symbolists, the Poster art Movement of the 1890s and the work of many later-period Art Nouveau artists like Pape, Mucha and Clarke.
Beardsley died in Menton, France at the age of 25 on March 16, 1898.
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 Aubrey Vincent Beardsley - LoveToKnow 1911
AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (1872-1898), English artist in fl and white, was born at Brighton on the 2 4 th of August 1872.
Beardsley had an unswerving tendency towards the fantastic of the gloomier and "unwholesome" sort.
His treatment of most subjects was revolutionary; he deliberately ignored proportion and perspective, and the "freedom from convention" which he displayed caused his work to be judged with harshness.
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 Aubrey Beardsley, The Pre-Raphaelites, and Victorian Culture
Aubrey Beardsley followed the Pre-Raphaelite Movement as a unique artist, drawing on many sources of inspiration to create his masterful fl-and-white ink drawings.
Beardsley perhaps creates a complex image of Salome in which she attempts to dress to reflect her independence yet her attempt is in vain, as she ends up appearing ridiculously at the mercy of her unmerciful dress.
Beardsley drew the girl's toilet in great detail even though the floor of the room in which she stands is not even delineated.
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 Aubrey Beardsley Chronology
Beardsley is dismissed by Lane who is under pressure to rid the organisation of all 'decadent' influences.
Beardsley suffers ill-health for most of the year and, in the wake of the Wilde scandal, most of his commissions dry up.
Beardsley is courted by a new patron, Marc-Andre Raffalovich.
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 Aubrey Beardsley | Fin de Siècle - Symbolist Art of the late 19th Century
Perhaps it was that threat of early demise which created from a frail and awkward young man a manically prolific artist who, despite his brief 26 years, managed to carve out for himself not only a place amidst the artistic bohemian elite of the time but a permanent niche amidst the revolutionaries of art.
Beardsley, though friends with many of the famous homosexuals of his time, was never involved in the flmail and prostitution which eventually sealed Wilde's fate.
As months passed, the unfortunate association with Wilde was forgotten and Aubrey took a position at The Savoy, where he brought his ingeniousness to such ouvres as Les Liasons Dangereuses and Das Rheingold.
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 Aubrey Beardsley
AUBREY BEARDSLEY was born in Brighton on 21 August 1872.
Vincent Beardsley, however, had the practised charm of thirty-one years and a metropolitan upbringing; while Ellen Pitt boasted that streak of daring and perverseness which had already earned her a reputation for unconventionality (it was even suggested in some quarters that Vincent Beardsley might not have been the premier venu).
Aubrey was exposed to, and enraptured by, the magical world of clear lines and bold tones.
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 glbtq >> arts >> Beardsley, Aubrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
English decadent artist Aubrey Beardsley was a precocious talent who made a lasting contribution to the art of illustration.
One of the greatest of the Symbolists and a master of pen and ink, Beardsley developed a highly original, formally elegant style, inspired in part by Greek vase painting, in which ornamental rhythm of line combines with a perverse and wickedly satiric imagination to create unforgettable images, often hilarious, frequently erotic, and sometimes deeply moving.
Beardsley was born on August 21, 1872 in Brighton, England into a genteel family, but one rendered nearly destitute by the incompetence of his businessman father.
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 Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque
Aubrey Beardsley, often cited as the “dominating artistic personality” and “the one ‘genius’” of the 1890s, has long been acknowledged by scholars as “the mentality most representative” of the period known as the Victorian Decadence.
The book examines Aubrey Beardsley’s artistic development and his implicit view of the nature of meaning itself in the context of the fin de siècle.
His parodic art, characterized by a variety of grotesque figures and revolutionary designs, captured visually the central contradictions and paradoxes of the “yellow nineties” – a period whose “Religion of Art” sought to establish an authenticating “center” for life, only to discover a world that was not logocentric and comforting, but paradoxical and unsettling.
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 Aubrey Beardsley Summary
Aubrey Beardsley was born in Brighton on Aug. 21, 1872.
Because of his mother's absence from home, Aubrey was sent to a nearby boarding school at the age of 6; his schooling was interrupted by attacks of tuberculosis.
Beardsley was a bit of a dandy, with "a face like a silver hatchet, and grass green hair," according to Wilde.
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 The Art of Aubrey Beardsley
Beardsley's criticism of materialism is evident in his drawing of the robber chief intended for The Forty Thieves (illus.
In studying Beardsley's art as social criticism, it becomes evident how he suggests that the wealthy Victorians were just as susceptible to corruption as their eighteenth century counterparts.
Beardsley, as a member of the avant garde, also criticized the Victorian art world with its pressure to conform to the Victorian artistic ideal.
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 Aubrey Beardsley quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born on 21 August 1872 in which town in the south of England?
Beardsley had a sister, just a year older than himself and, like him, considered an artistic and musical prodigy.
In 1896, Beardsley conspired with Leonard Smithers in the publication of another magazine which held some of his best works.
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 Aubrey Beardsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aubrey Beardsley was born on 21 August, 1872, in Brighton, England.
Beardsley, heavily influenced by Whistler, produced drawings that were "too Japanese" according to Wilde, who considered his play Byzantine.
[Beardsley's drawings were "like the naughty scribbles a precocious boy makes on the margins of his copybooks."] It was not Wilde, however, who asked Beardsley to revise four of the drawings, but the publisher of the play, who was offended by the grotesque nudity in them.
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 Who is Aubrey Beardsley?
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was an English artist and writer of the Victorian period.
Beardsley suffered from tuberculosis from the age of nine and was sick for most of his life.
Beardsley's life was tragically cut short at the age of 25 by tuberculosis which had plagued him since childhood.
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 Aubrey Beardsley
Sadly Aubrey left at the end of the summer term in 1888 to work as a clerk although he returned that December to take part in “The Pay of the Pied Piper” for which he also designed the costumes and programme.
Aubrey would compose his pictures in pencil and keep correcting until, as a colleague recorded, the paper became “raddled from pencil, India rubber and knife”.
Aubrey became a good friend of Wilde’s and in fact four of the Salome pictures were disguised portraits of the Irish writer.
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 Amazon.com: Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography: Books: Matthew Sturgis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse by Stanley Weintraub
The author's portrait of Beardsley is equally vivid, limning both his dandified affectations and underlying sweetness, his dedication to art and the distaste for sustained work that made him the despair of his publishers.
That Beardsley met an early death at the age of 25 after a lifelong battle with tuberculosis was especially ironic, as the cult of the doomed youth was central to the Decadent movement.
www.amazon.com /Aubrey-Beardsley-Biography-Matthew-Sturgis/dp/087951910X   (1442 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aubrey Beardsley
It has been cleverly said that Beardsley was "a boy who never grew up", and the statement has a considerable amount of truth in it.
He was a wonderfully precocious boy all his life, with the frank merriment, enthusiasm, and exuberance of a lad.
While still a lad he attracted the attention of Sir E. Byrne-Jones and Puvis de Chavannes, and it said much for his genius that it received encouragement from men so different in their aims and practice.
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 Aubrey Beardsley collection
Aubrey Beardsley was born on August 21st 1872 and died from tuberculosis on March 16th 1898.
There are two 'fake pen drawings' alleged to be by Beardsley, along with a number of prints and photographs of his work.
Other papers include a copy of Beardsley's will and a summary of that of his mother Ellen Beardsley, announcements and prospectuses for works illustrated by Beardsley, cuttings and excerpts, and catalogues.
www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/beardsley.html   (275 words)

  
 Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Beardsley exemplifies the aesthetic movement in English art of the 1890s (see decadents).
The art editor of the famous Yellow Book quarterly (1894–96), Beardsley also edited and contributed some of his best work to Leonard Smithers’s periodical, The Savoy, and illustrated many books including Wilde’s Salomé; (1894), Pope’s Rape of the Lock (1896), Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (privately pub., 1896), and Jonson’s Volpone (1898).
Criticized for the erotic character of his work and condemned for his association with Oscar Wilde, Beardsley fell from public favor.
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 Aubrey Beardsley
As a homosexual, Beardsley did not experience the anguish awoken in artists like Munch by the problematic state of relations between the sexes.
Aubrey Beardsley: Symbol, Mask, and Self-Irony, by Milly Heyd.
Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque, by Chris Snodgrass.
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