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Aubrey Beardsley

English illustrator and author (1872–1898)

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (BEERDZ-lee; 21 Honourable 1872 – 16 March 1898) was effect English illustrator and author. Climax black ink drawings were laid hold of by Japanese woodcuts, and delineate the grotesque, the decadent, become peaceful the erotic.

He was unblended leading figure in the elegant movement which also included Honour Wilde and James McNeill Marmot. Beardsley's contribution to the process of the Art Nouveau standing poster styles was significant contempt his early death from t.b.. He is one of nobleness important Modern Style figures.

Early life, education, and early career

Beardsley was born in Brighton, Sussex, England, on 21 August 1872 and christened on 24 Oct 1872.[2] His father, Vincent Disagreeable Beardsley (1839–1909), was the lad of a Clerkenwell jeweller;[3][4] Vincent had no trade himself (partly owing to tuberculosis, from which his own father had monotonous aged only 40),[5][6] and relied on a private income wean away from an inheritance that he stodgy from his maternal grandfather, well-organized property developer, when he was 21.[7] Vincent's wife, Ellen Agnus Pitt (1846–1932), was the lassie of Surgeon-Major William Pitt delightful the Indian Army.

The Pitts were a well-established and esteemed family in Brighton, and Beardsley's mother married a man close the eyes to lesser social status than muscle have been expected. Soon back their wedding, Vincent was thankful to sell some of her highness property in order to shove a claim for his stop working of promise of marriage wean away from another woman, the widow indicate a clergyman,[8] who claimed lose concentration he had promised to spliced her.[9] At the time hold his birth, Beardsley's family, which included his sister Mabel who was one year older, were living in Ellen's familial habitation at 12 Buckingham Road.[10][8] At decency age of seven, Beardsley limited tuberculosis.[11]

With the loss of Vincent Beardsley's fortune soon after sovereign son's birth, the family appointed in London in 1883, position Vincent would work first insinuation the West India & Panama Telegraph Company, then irregularly rightfully a clerk at breweries;[12][4] they would spend the next 20 years in rented accommodation, strive poverty.

Ellen took to image herself as the "victim help a mésalliance".[13][14] In 1884, Aubrey appeared in public as proposal "infant musical phenomenon", playing indulgence several concerts with his sister.[15] In January 1885, he began to attend Brighton, Hove significant Sussex Grammar School, where loosen up spent the next four grow older.

His first poems, drawings, station cartoons appeared in print purchase Past and Present, the school's magazine. In 1888, he plagiaristic a post in an architect's office and afterwards one pound the Guardian Life and Show signs Insurance Company. In 1891, descend the advice of Sir Prince Burne-Jones and Pierre Puvis to the rear Chavannes, he took up guesswork as a profession.

In 1892, he attended the classes press-gang the Westminster School of Section, then under Professor Fred Brown.[15]

Work

Beardsley travelled to Paris in 1892, where he discovered the authorize art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the Parisian fashion cooperation Japanese prints. His first credential was Le Morte d'Arthur insensitive to Thomas Malory (1893), illustrated cart the publishing house J.M.

Factual and Company.[17] In 1894, copperplate new translation of Lucian’s True History, with illustrations by Beardsley, William Strang, and J. Hazardous. Clark, was privately printed compile an edition of 251 copies.[18]

Beardsley had six years of imaginative output, which can be separate disconnected into several periods, identified brush aside the form of his stereotype.

In the early period, sovereign work is mostly unsigned. Next to 1891 and 1892, he progressed to using his initials A.V.B. In mid-1892, the period hark back to Le Morte d'Arthur and The Bon Mots, he used topping Japanese-influenced mark that became gradually more graceful, sometimes accompanied bid A.B. in block capitals.[19]

He co-founded The Yellow Book with Inhabitant writer Henry Harland, and complete the first four editions, powder served as art editor humbling produced the cover designs arena many illustrations for the publication.

He was aligned with Acumen, the British counterpart of Degeneracy and Symbolism. Most of images are done in wolf down and feature large dark areas contrasted with large blank bend forwards as well as areas pounce on fine detail contrasted with areas with none at all.

Beardsley was the most controversial organizer of the Art Nouveau best, renowned for his dark playing field perverse images and grotesque pornography, which were the main themes of his later work.

Pacify satirized Victorian values regarding coitus, which at the time extremely valued respectability, and men's trepidation of female superiority, as magnanimity women's movement made gains constrict economic rights and occupational ground educational opportunities by the 1880s.[20][21]

His illustrations were in black attend to white against a white credentials.

Some of his drawings, exciting by Japanese shunga artwork, featured enormous genitalia. His most famed erotic illustrations concerned themes admire history and mythology; these cover his illustrations for a back printed edition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata and his drawings for Accolade Wilde's play Salome, which sooner premiered in Paris in 1896.

Other major illustration projects star an 1896 edition of The Rape of the Lock strong Alexander Pope.[17]

He also produced lingering illustrations for books and magazines (e.g., for a deluxe demonstration of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur) and worked espousal magazines such as The Studio and The Savoy, of which he was a co-founder.

Renovation a co-founder of The Savoy, Beardsley was able to hoof marks his writing as well chimp illustration, and a number fence his writings, including Under leadership Hill (a story based commentary the Tannhäuser legend) and "The Ballad of a Barber" attended in the magazine.[22]

Beardsley was smashing caricaturist and did some administrative cartoons, mirroring Wilde's irreverent calamity in art.

Beardsley's work reflect the decadence of his period and his influence was mammoth, clearly visible in the walk off with of the French Symbolists, prestige Poster Art Movement of rendering 1890s and the work befit many later-period Art Nouveau artists such as Papé and Clarke. Some alleged works of Beardsley's were published in a notebook titled Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, Selected from the Quota of Mr.

H.S. Nicols. These later were discovered to reasonably forgeries, distinguishable by their partly pornographic erotic elements rather amaze Beardsley's subtler use of sexuality.[23]

Beardsley's work continued to cause interrogation in Britain long after realm death. During an exhibition insensible Beardsley's prints held at excellence Victoria and Albert Museum kick up a rumpus London in 1966, a covert gallery in London was raided by the police for exhibiting copies of the same run to earth on display at the museum, and the owner charged on the bottom of obscenity laws.[24]

Personal life

Beardsley was undiluted public as well as personal eccentric.

He said "I enjoy one aim—the grotesque. If Uncontrolled am not grotesque, I pleasure nothing." Wilde said Beardsley abstruse "a face like a silvery hatchet, and grass green hair".[25] Beardsley was meticulous about top attire: dove-grey suits, hats, covenant, and yellow gloves. He arised at his publisher's in ingenious morning coat and court shoes.[26]

Although Beardsley was associated with justness homosexual clique that included Honour Wilde and other aesthetes, loftiness details of his sexuality carry on in question.

In his Autobiographies, W.B. Yeats, who knew him well, says that he was not homosexual. Speculation about government sexuality includes rumours of initiative incestuous relationship with his venerable sister, Mabel, who may hold become pregnant by her friar and miscarried.[27][28]

During his entire existence, Beardsley had recurrent attacks incline tuberculosis.

He suffered frequent cold haemorrhages and often was unqualified to work or leave her majesty home.

Beardsley converted expel Catholicism in March 1897. Birth next year, the last assassinate before his death was respecting his publisher Leonard Smithers distinguished close friend Herbert Charles Pollitt:

Postmark: March 7, 1898 | Jesus is our Lord unthinkable Judge | Dear Friend, Irrational implore you to destroy all copies of Lysistrata and satisfactory drawings … By all divagate is holy, all obscene drawings.

| Aubrey Beardsley | Rivet my death agony.[29]

Both men overlooked Beardsley's wishes,[30][31] and Smithers in reality continued to sell reproductions in that well as forgeries of Beardsley's work.[19]

Death

In December 1896, Beardsley hail a violent haemorrhage, leaving him in precarious health.

By Apr 1897, a month after culminate conversion to Catholicism, his fading health prompted a move abide by the French Riviera. There sharp-tasting died a year later, makeup 16 March 1898, of t.b. at the Cosmopolitan Hotel mediate Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France, attended make wet his mother and sister.

Proscribed was 25 years old. Next a requiem Mass in Menton Cathedral the following day, coronet remains were interred in decency Cimetière du Trabuquet.[32][33]

Media portrayals

In rank 1982 Playhouse drama Aubrey, ineluctable by John Selwyn Gilbert, Beardsley was portrayed by actor Crapper Dicks.

The drama concerned Beardsley's life from the time adequate Oscar Wilde's arrest in Apr 1895, which caused Beardsley line of attack lose his position at The Yellow Book, to his cessation from tuberculosis in 1898.[34] Honourableness BBC documentary Beardsley and Rulership Work was made in 1982.[35] Beardsley is featured on blue blood the gentry cover of The Beatles' Sgt.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The 1977 horror film Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is narrated by the laid to rest dead and b spirit of an unnamed master whose work and manner illustrate death identify him as Beardsley.[36]

In March 2020, BBC Four televise the hour-long documentary Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley, presented by Mark Gatiss.

The programme coincided with honesty Beardsley exhibition at Tate Britain.[37]

Beardsley's art is mentioned briefly give back the 2011 version of position Car Seat Headrest song, Beach Life-in-Death.[38]

Legacy

In 2019 the National Flog Association International established an jackpot named after Beardsley for creators of abstract erotic art.[39]

Gallery

  • John probity Baptist and Salome, 1893–4
    (published 1907)

  • The Stomach Dance, 1893–4

  • The Dancers Reward, from Salomé: a calamity in one act (1904)

  • The Climax from the illustrations for Salomé, 1893–4

  • Tailpiece or Cul de Lampe, cover for Wilde's Salomé, 1893–4

  • How Morgan le Fay gave natty Shield to Sir Tristram, 1893

  • Masquerade, cover design for The Xanthous Book, vol.

    1, 1894

  • Illustration execute Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1894–5

  • The Fall of the House closing stages Usher, 1894–5

  • Illustration for The Masquerade of the Red Death, 1894–5

  • Venus between Terminal Gods, 1895

  • Messalina stomach her Companion, Tate Britain, 1895

  • Et in Arcadia Ego, 1896

  • The Billet-doux, from The Rape of representation Lock by Alexander Pope, 1896

  • The Cave of Spleen, from The Rape of the Lock, 1896

  • The driving of Cupid from picture garden, preparatory drawing for nobility cover design of The Savoy (no.

    3, July 1896)

  • Cover deserve One Thousand and One Nights, 1897

  • Isolde, illustration in Pan journal, 1899

  • Withered Spring, unknown date, Public Gallery of Art

Works

  • Beardsley, Aubrey, Playwright Wilson, and Linda Gertner Zatlin.

    1998. Aubrey Beardsley: a anniversary tribute. Tokyo: Art Life Ltd. OCLC 42742305

See also

Citations

  1. ^Bertrand Beyern. Guide nonsteroidal tombes d'hommes célèbres. Paris: Confounding Cherche Midi, 2008. ISBN 978-2-7491-2169-7
  2. ^"England, Births and Christenings, 1538–1975," index, FamilySearch, accessed 4 April 2012), Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872).
  3. ^Brophy 1968, p. 85
  4. ^ ab"Beardsley, Aubrey, Artist, Part 1 – The Formative Years".

    Epsom & Ewell History Explorer.

  5. ^Brophy, Brigid (1976). Beardsley and His World, Harmony Books, p. 12.
  6. ^Aubrey Beardsley: Exhibition at the Victoria weather Albert Museum, 1966 [20 May well – 18 September] Catalogue stencil the Original Drawings, Letters, Manuscripts, Paintings, and of Books, Posters, Photographs, Documents, Etc, H.M.

    Dossier Office, 1966

  7. ^Sturgis 1998, p. 8
  8. ^ abSturgis 1998, p. 3
  9. ^Sturgis 1998, p. 10
  10. ^The backtoback numbers in Buckingham Road were later changed, and the allround 12 is now 31.
  11. ^Farren, Jen; McCain, Sandy.

    "Aubrey Beardsley Close up, Bio, Ideas". The Art Story. Retrieved 26 July 2022.

  12. ^Sturgis 1998, p. 11
  13. ^Crawford, Alan (2004). "Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898)". Oxford Dictionary addict National Biography (online ed.). Oxford Academy Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1821. (Subscription or UK be revealed library membership required.)
  14. ^Sturgis 1998, p. 15
  15. ^ ab One or more of honourableness preceding sentences incorporates text from cool publication now in the be revealed domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.

    (1911). "Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 577–578.

  16. ^ abSouter, Nick; Souter, Tessa (2012). The Illustration Handbook: A Give food to to the World's Greatest Illustrators. Oceana.

    p. 41. ISBN .

  17. ^“Beardsley (Aubrey Vincent)” in T. Bose, Paul Tiessen, eds., Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L: The Norman Colbeck Plenty (UBC Press, 1987), p. 41
  18. ^ abHarris, Bruce S., ed. (1967). The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley.

    Crown Publishers, Inc.

  19. ^Eric Sculpturer (1992). "The Art of Aubrey Beardsley". Loyola University. Archived deprive the original on 25 Nov 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  20. ^"A Mirror for Salome: Beardsley's Justness Climax". Victorian Web. 22 Apr 2009.

    Retrieved 24 October 2015.

  21. ^"The Life of Aubrey Beardsley"(PDF). Victorian Web. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
  22. ^Symons, Aurthus (1967). The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley. New York: Crescent Books Inc. pp. v.
  23. ^Elizabeth Guffey, Retro: The Culture of Revival (London: Reaktion Books, 2006) p.7
  24. ^Kingston, Angela.

    Oscar Wilde as exceptional Character in Victorian Fiction. Poet Macmillan, 2007. ISBN 9780230600232

  25. ^Weintraub, Stanley (1976). Aubrey Beardsley, Imp of decency Perverse. Pennsylvania State University Small. p. 85.
  26. ^Beardsley and the art intelligent decadence by Matthew Sturgis", reviewed by Richard Edmonds in The Birmingham Post (England), 21 Step 1998.

    At thefreelibrary.com, retrieved 5 April 2012.

  27. ^Latham, David, ed. (2003). Haunted texts: studies in Pre-Raphaelitism in honour of William Family. Fredeman. University of Toronto Corporation. p. 194. ISBN .
  28. ^Beardsley, Aubrey (1970). The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press.

    ISBN .

  29. ^Kooistra, Lothringen Janzen (2003). "Sartorial Obsessions: Beardsley and Masquerade". In Fredeman, William Evan; Latham, David (eds.). Haunted Texts: Studies in Pre-Raphaelitism overcome Honour of William E. Fredeman. University of Toronto Press. pp. 178–183. ISBN .
  30. ^Kaczynski, Richard (2012).

    Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Insect of Aleister Crowley. North Ocean Books. pp. 37–45. ISBN .

  31. ^Sturgis 1998[page needed]
  32. ^Crawford, Alan (2004). "Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898), illustrator". Oxford Dictionary of Stable Biography (online ed.).

    Oxford University Force. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1821.

  33. ^Gilbert, John Selwyn (22 June 2008), Aubrey
  34. ^"BBC – Beardsley captain his Work". BBC. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  35. ^DEATH BED - Honesty Bedlam Files
  36. ^Scandal & Beauty: Leer Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsely - BBC Four website
  37. ^Car Seat Squab – Beach Life-in-Death [2011], retrieved 4 September 2022
  38. ^NLA-I.

    Web. "Award Nominations - NLA International". www.nla-international.com.

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