The Fine Line Between Decoration and Decadence

Aubrey Beardsley innovated illustration with an approach that was to influence great painters, graphic designers and comic artists

Aubrey Beardsley was a fine draughtsman, an innovative artist and his most famous works are prints devised for book illustration. Although his career was short, due to his early death of tuberculosis at the age of 25, and marred by controversy, his distinctive style and simplicity of line was a huge influence that can be seen in many…