BEARDSLEY, Aubrey Vincent
(b. 1872, Brighton, d. 1898, Menton)

Isolde

1899
Four-colour line etching, 178 x 126 mm
Library of Congress, Washington

"Isolde" by Aubrey Beardsley is an illustration in the magazine Pan, volume 5, 1899. Pan (1895-1915) was a Berlin-based German arts magazine, published by the PAN co-operative of artists, poets and critics.

Beardsley offered a new understanding of the frame and pictorial plane, where the decorative line cutting across flat surfaces replace the three-dimensionality of reality.




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