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AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (1872-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUBREY See also:VINCENT See also:BEARDSLEY (1872-1898)  , See also:English artist in See also:black and See also:white, was See also:born at See also:Brighton on the 24th of See also:August 1872 . In 1883 his See also:family settled in See also:London, and in the following See also:year he appeared in public as an " See also:infant musical phenomenon," playing at several concerts with his See also:sister . In 1888 he obtained a See also:post in an architect's See also:office, and afterwards one in the See also:Guardian See also:Life and See also:Fire See also:Insurance See also:Company (1889) . In 18g1, under the See also:advice of See also:Sir See also:Edward Burne-See also:Jones and Puvis de Chavannes, he took up See also:art as a profession . In 1892 he attended the classes at the See also:Westminster School of Art, then under See also:Professor See also:Brown; and from 1893 until his See also:death, at See also:Mentone, on the 16th of See also:March 1898, his See also:work came continually before the public, arousing a See also:storm of See also:criticism and much hostile feeling . See also:Beardsley had an unswerving tendency towards he fantastic of 1 the gloomier and " unwholesome " sort . His treatment of most subjects was revolutionary; he deliberately ignored proportion and See also:perspective, and the " freedom from See also:convention " which he displayed caused his work to be judged with harshness . In certain phases of technique he especially excelled; and his earlier methods of dealing with the single See also:line in See also:conjunction with masses of black are in their way unsurpassed, except in the art of See also:Japan, the See also:country which probably gave his ideas some assistance . He was always an ornamentist, rather than an illustrator; and his work must be judged from that point of view . His See also:frontispiece to Volpone is held by some to be, from this purely technical standpoint, one of the best See also:pen-drawings of the See also:age . His posters for the See also:Avenue See also:theatre and for Mr See also:Fisher Unwin were among the first of the See also:modern cult of that art . The following are the See also:chief See also:works which are illustrated with drawings by Beardsley: the Bon Mot Library, The See also:Pall Mall See also:Budget, and The Studio (1893), Sir See also:Thomas See also:Malory's Morte d'See also:Arthur (1893-1894), See also:Salome (1894), The Yellow See also:Book (1894-1895), The See also:Savoy See also:Magazine (1896), The See also:Rape of the See also:Lock (1896) .

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Pennell, The Studio (1893); See also:Symons, See also:Aubrey Beardsley (1898); R . See also:Ross, Volpone (1898); H . C . Marillier, The See also:Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley (1899); Sm.thers, Reproductions of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley; See also:John See also:Lane, The Later Works of Aubrey Beardsley (1901); R . Ross, Aubrey Beardsley (1908) . (E . F .

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