i have never been convinced by aubrey beardsley's hair

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― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

He was a winsome lad, that one. (One of the greatest artists EVAH but I am biased.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

http://art.nmu.edu/larson/isit/ladder/beardsley.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ragnarokpress.com/scriptorium/oldsite/beardsleybw.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.beautyandruin.com/findesiecle/beardsley/salome/sal15.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Convinced? Who cares?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~NW6E-MTMR/arthur/image_a/tristan.gif

i think it is his achilles heel

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

or maybe he had a secret thing for bald ladies in unconvincing wigs

(like hemingway) (except for the wigs)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

see i love everything in the one ned linked except salome's hair which is annoying

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

I have always liked his highly stylized representaion of hair.

http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2002f/cciv210/01/lysistrata_illustrations/images/b04.lys_def_acropolis_e.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

it is like his women have hid a pie behind their occipital bulge

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

NSFW, I guess

http://www.velvetplanet.com/members/pleasuregallery/eroticart/adoration_of_penis.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

I have print of this in the house.

http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10041000/10041415.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

don't let sugarpants see the one above!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

i am v.pro AB basically michael, but it just now occurred to me this niggly feelin has always been with me, since i wz a kid lookin at my maw and paw's art books

perhaps this is where i exorcise it

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

So it's the shape of the hair rather than that of the locks that disturbs you?

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

http://img.thefreedictionary.com/thumb/d/d8/AubreyBeardsley.png

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

yes!! (yes exactly)

i like what you called the stylisation, but the shape always seems wrong to me

haha there is a g.k.chesterton father brown story called "the wrong shape" abt a poet/artist whose work wz evil bcz of the "wrong shapes" in it

(actually i think the artist's work wasn't evil it waz some other stuff that was)

anyway i always assumed it wz inspired by swinburne but maybe it was more inspired by beardsley

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

I think it is a pure affectation born of fashion.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I looked at that picture! You can't hide the truth from me!

Actually, I would probably lick those balls in real life just to say that I licked the hugest balls in the world. I would totally brag about that and not be ashamed in the least.

I should probably stop talking about ball-licking at some point.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Mark is saying a striking true thing here I think!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

i have never been convinced by erte's hair.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 24 February 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/nation/jb_nation_poe_3_e.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

I used to live in a house in Harringay that had Aubrey Beardsley wallpaper in the lav. It was quite something.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Wyndham Lewis' hair was similar but much much better:

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/lewis_wyndham.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.laganzua.net/star/prensa/imagenes/happymondays.jpg

― NRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

He had such great hair. And a great nose, to boot.

(But then again, I actually found that era Shaun Ryder quite attractive as well so what do I know?)

((Half the Broody French Boys in Paris sport that hair and nose combination as well. Mais oui!))

― Kate Kept Me Alive! (kate), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I think he is the secret influence on Herge.

― Austin (Austin), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure AB knew little of real life hair styling.

haha Mark Lawson was complaining that Caravaggio couldn't do disembodied heads the other day, which begs the question has Lawson ever SEEN a real disembodied head?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.houseofhorrors.com/butterball.JPG

you decide!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Is that a disembodied head or a picture of Mark Lawson?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Ack what is up with those freaky sunglasses things?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

he has been takin st johns wort

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

in St. John's Wood

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Dada, thanks for giving me the best laugh i've had all week!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

AB certainly influenced Hugo Pratt:
http://www.bdoubliees.com/asuivre/couvertures/as12.jpg
Though Pratt employed a freer brush style

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

On subject of W Lewis, here's a bit of BLAST:
ihttp://www.fulltable.com/VTS/b/blast/60.jpg

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bulfinch.org/tales/graphics/queens4.gif
Awefully Weirdsley!
http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/photosearch/Previews/0058320.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

haha Mark Lawson was complaining that Caravaggio couldn't do disembodied heads the other day, which begs the question has Lawson ever SEEN a real disembodied head?

I misread this as:

haha Mark Lawrenson was complaining that Caravaggio couldn't do disembodied heads the other day, which begs the question has Lawrenson ever SEEN a real disembodied head?

obv Caravggio is some Italian footballer.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

can't believe there's an aubrey beardsley thread already, I just came here to start one!

― czn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

did anyone see the seduction exhibition at the barbican last year?

― czn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

my folx had to hide the lysistrata when i was a kid. eventually i found it behind some other books, with a couple anais nin hardbacks, lol.

― gff, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

He is so attractive & I have always wished I could draw as well as him.

― Abbott, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

i am still unswayed by his do

― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

But he is dead and must have no hair to speak of now.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

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