influenced by toulouse-lautrec’s art nouveau posters & a particularly parisian proclivity for japanese prints, beardsley scribbled out a niche as the bad boy of aestheticism. he co-founded the literary quarterly, ‘the yellow book’ (which forever linked him to oscar wilde’s trial for homosexuality), & illustrated wilde’s ‘salome’.
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