Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley, (1872-98), British illustrator. His, stylized black and white drawings, which were influenced by Japanese painting, are typical of the Art Nouveau style. His use of sensuous elongated human forms aroused much controversy in his day. Amongst his best-known works are the illustrations for the periodical The Yellow Book (1894-95) and for Oscar Wilde’s play Salome (1894). He became a Roman Catholic a year before his death from consumption.
“He had a sort of innocent familiarity with evil, he communed with leering dwarfs, the bloated epicene figures that peopled the depraved landscapes and grotesque interiors designed by his pen, as a child might talk to fairies. William Gaunt, The Aesthetic Adventure”
