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Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement, which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite h…
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culture · English illustrator and author (1872–1898) · writer · painter · poet · illustrator · poster artist · lithographer · graphic artist · exlibrist · author · draftsperson · also Aubrey Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, aubrey beardsley, Beardsley
Born 21 August 1872 · Died 16 March 1898 · Q272566
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
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The National Leather Association International established an award named after Beardsley for creators of abstract erotic art
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1966· 1 entry
A private gallery in London was raided by the police for exhibiting copies of the same prints on display at the museum and the owner was charged under obscenity laws
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1898· 3 entries
Died 1898-03-16.
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“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”
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“I shall not live much longer than did Keats.”
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1897· 2 entries
Leonard Smithers published some alleged works of Beardsley's in a book titled Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, Selected from the Collection of Mr
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Beardsley converted to Catholicism in March 1897.
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1894· 1 entry
A new translation of Lucian's True History, with illustrations by Beardsley, William Strang, and J
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1892· 2 entries
Attended the classes at the Westminster School of Art, then under Professor Fred Brown
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Where he discovered the poster art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the Parisian fashion for Japanese prints
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1891· 1 entry
Under the advice of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, he took up art as a profession
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1888· 1 entry
Obtained a post in an architect's office and afterwards one in the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company
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1884· 1 entry
Aubrey appeared in public as an "infant musical phenomenon", playing at several concerts with his sister
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1883· 1 entry
Where Vincent would work first for the West India & Panama Telegraph Company, then irregularly as a clerk at breweries; they would spend the next 20 years in rented accommodation, battling poverty
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1872· 1 entry
Born 1872-08-21.
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