Artist Birthdays – August 21: AUBREY BEARDSLEY
AUBREY BEARDSLEY (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898)
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Nationality: English
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Field: Illustration
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Art Movement: Art Nouveau, Aestheticism
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ARTiFact: He was best known as art editor and illustrator for The Yellow Book – a leading British periodical of the 1890’s – and for being a close friend of Oscar Wilde – for whom he created illustrations for the play Salomé.
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Artist Quote: “I have one aim — the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”
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Important Artwork (shown below): Illustrations from Salomé, 1894.
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