Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley, Of a Neophyte, and How the Black Art Was Revealed unto Him by the Fiend Asomuel, 1893

Art Nouveau

Aubrey Beardsley was a Nouveau artist from England in last half of the 19th century. He died at the age of 25. His work is often very sexual, and much of his work served as illustrations of literary works like Salome and Lysistrata.

I like his work as his drawing style reminds me both of the Japanese print style that became popular in Europe, and the crisp black and white reminds me of some of the comic book work produced in the late 60s early 70s.