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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 VINCENT BEARDSLEY (1872-1898)  ,
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English artist in black and white, was born at
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Brighton on the 24th of August 1872 . In 1883 his
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family settled in
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London, and in the following
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year he appeared in public as an " infant musical phenomenon," playing at several concerts with his
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sister . In 1888 he obtained a
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post in an architect's office, and afterwards one in the
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Guardian
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Life and Fire
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Insurance
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Company (1889) . In 18g1, under the advice of
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Sir
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Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chavannes, he took up
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art as a profession . In 1892 he attended the classes at the Westminster School of Art, then under Professor Brown; and from 1893 until his
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death, at Mentone, on the 16th of March 1898, his
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work came continually before the public, arousing a storm of criticism and much hostile feeling . 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 perspective, and the " freedom from 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
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line in conjunction with masses of black are in their way unsurpassed, except in the art of
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Japan, the 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 frontispiece to Volpone is held by some to be, from this purely technical standpoint, one of the best pen-drawings of the age . His posters for the Avenue theatre and for Mr Fisher Unwin were among the first of the
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modern cult of that art . The following are the chief
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works which are illustrated with drawings by Beardsley: the Bon Mot Library, The
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Pall Mall Budget, and The Studio (1893), Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur (1893-1894),
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Salome (1894), The Yellow
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Book (1894-1895), The Savoy
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Magazine (1896), The Rape of the Lock (1896) .

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

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