Showing posts with label Beardsley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beardsley. Show all posts

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Bloody Reward

The Dancer's Reward (1907) by the English artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898).
In this illustration to Oscar Wilde’s Salomé the wicked heroine seems as terrified as her victim.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Aubrey Beardsley's Salome

The most famous images with a modern aspect are from the English Art Nouveau illustrator Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898). He got the idea from Oscar Wilde's play and made the illustrations for it, which were published with the edition from 1907.