Beardsley Illustration Art

Aubrey Beardsley (1972—1989) was an outstanding representative of Art Nouveau in late1890s and early1990s. His life is like his black and white illustrations, both simple and legend. Beardsley’s style is unique, his illustrations were mostly with black and white lines. The picture he described was endowed with thoughts itself. His artworks perfectly analyzed the social consciousness and the thought forms of the19th century across Europe. His creation involved book illustration, book binding, and post design. He really made a lot of art works with good quality. The art life of Beardsley was a very short time, He only lived for26years, but the wealth he had brought to society was incalculable. His influence has filled into history and will never be eliminated. The author did a lot on investigations and studies of Beardsley’s artworks and tries to explain his achievements through several following points which analyse Beardsley and his illustrations.The main point of the paper is the artwork style of Beardsley. The author will let people know how Beardsley’s illustration style formed through the introduction of his life;what kind of elements had influenced him through the analyses of his artworks;the paper also disscusses how Beardsley absorbed the pattern he liked creatively and how he changed these elements to be his own through a lot of diagrams.This paper introduces Beardsley’s four masterpieces as well as main point include 《The Death of King Arthur》,《Salome》,《Yellow Book》 and 《Savoy》.People can get the different feelings of his style and the techniques from different time of Beardsley’s life through the diagrams. In the meantime, people will know something more in Beardsley’s art and his spirit by the particular explain of his illustrations.The paper discusses the relationship of Beardsley and modern art. This is the creative also difficult point. The author starts the idea with graphic design aera and tries to analyse the different feature between Beardsley’s illustrations and the illustrations nowadays, and the author uses many pictures to explain the inherit and fransformation which the modern illustration has get from Beradsley’s art.At last, Conclusion.It is the summary of the whole paper. It points out the deficiencies in the paper and make wishes for young generation of art funs and the future of illustration.