[English Art Nouveau/Golden Age Illustrator, 1872-1898]


Aubrey Beardsley

English - Art nouveau/Golden age – Illustrator 1872-1898

These are the naughty images that kids like to giggle at. Actually, I giggle, too.
Aubrey Beardsley was not at home in the Victorian society in which he lived. These images poke fun at that society and its values. He did make people think. Although most of his drawings were for books or magazines seen by few people, his erotic and haunting drawings have been well known for more than a hundred years.

Aubrey Beardsley's art has gone in and out of fashion many times over the last century. But there is no doubt he has had a lasting impression on many artists who followed him. His life was a brief one. Born in 1872, he achieved fame early, but was dead by age twenty-five. His drawings were not mere illustrations, but formed an integral part of the English Aesthetic Movement and are best understood in this context.

I feel his work went from very beautiful to quite vaguer or offensive to some people. There is a slight Asian feel 2 his work and love this as well the beautiful way he draws women in there gowns.

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