The Grotesque and the Beautiful: A Study of the Characteristics of the Male and Female Figures in the Illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley

Beiyi Zhang

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The Grotesque and the Beautiful: A Study of the Characteristics of the Male and Female Figures in the Illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley

Volume 3, Issue 4

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The Grotesque and the Beautiful: A Study of the Characteristics of the Male and Female Figures in the Illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley
The Grotesque and the Beautiful: A Study of the Characteristics of the Male and Female Figures in the Illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley
School of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Hubei 430074, P.R.China
Vol. 3, Issue 4, Pages: 14-21(2022)
Published： 25 April 2022 ，
DOI：10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786503.20220304
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Zhang Beiyi.The Grotesque and the Beautiful: A Study of the Characteristics of the Male and Female Figures in the Illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2022,03(04):14-21.
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Zhang Beiyi.The Grotesque and the Beautiful: A Study of the Characteristics of the Male and Female Figures in the Illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2022,03(04):14-21. DOI： 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786503.20220304.

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As a renowned English illustrator of the late 19th century and a pioneer of the aesthetic movement

a distinctive feature of Beardsley's illustrations is the frequent appearance of female characters

which are portrayed differently from their traditional counterparts

and their femininity is sometimes blurred by Beardsley

in some cases not differing from that of men. There is a tendency of ambiguity in Beardsley's approach to the representation of male and female gender roles. Underneath the highly ornamented textures of Aubrey Beardsley's paintings

we can discern not only an elegant and slender sense of beauty but also his pursuit of the aesthetic themes of secrecy and decadence. Using the method of psychoanalysis proposed by Sigmund Freud

this essay first examines the life story of Aubrey Beardsley and

analyses specifically the male and female figures in Beardsley's illustrations. The aim of this article is to reveal the relationship between Beardsley's family background

aesthetic pursuits and the particular representations of men and women in his work.

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Artistic imagePsychoanalysis

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