aubrey beardsley

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a British illustrator (=someone who draws pictures for books) who is famous for his black and white pictures with clear rounded lines (1872-98). born Aug. 21, 1872, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. died March 16, 1898, Menton, Fr. British illustrator. His only formal training was a few months of evening classes at the Westminster School of Art. His style was based on the work of Edward Burne-Jones and Japanese woodcuts, and he quickly became a master of the curvilinear black-and-white ornamental illustration popularized by the Art Nouveau movement. In 1893 he illustrated an edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, and in 1894 he achieved notoriety with his erotic illustrations for the English version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. He became art editor and illustrator of the new quarterly The Yellow Book that same year. He died at age 25 of tuberculosis

{i} Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898), British illustrator who was famous for his outstanding original black and white (and often) depressing and erotic illustrations and drawings (which were very individual and typical of the Art Nouveau style)

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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

v. born Aug. 21, 1872, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. died March 16, 1898, Menton, Fr. British illustrator. His only formal training was a few months of evening classes at the Westminster School of Art. His style was based on the work of Edward Burne-Jones and Japanese woodcuts, and he quickly became a master of the curvilinear black-and-white ornamental illustration popularized by the Art Nouveau movement. In 1893 he illustrated an edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, and in 1894 he achieved notoriety with his erotic illustrations for the English version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. He became art editor and illustrator of the new quarterly The Yellow Book that same year. He died at age 25 of tuberculosis

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

{i} (1872-1898) British illustrator who was famous for his outstanding original black and white (and often) depressing and erotic illustrations and drawings (which were very individual and typical of the Art Nouveau style)

Hyphenation

Au·brey Beards·ley

Turkish pronunciation

ôbri bîrdzli

Pronunciation

/ˈôbrē ˈbərdzlē/ /ˈɔːbriː ˈbɪrdzliː/