The Art of Illustration by Edmund J. Sullivan

Author:Edmund J. Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

No. 49. Gustave Doré. Contes Drolatiques. Compare this drawing with No. 50.

Beardsley

Facts existed for Beardsley no more than as he would have them; Nature “put him out.” He liked the world well aired, not crude and raw; solid facts got in the way, and were a stumbling block in so entirely artificial and amusing a world. If a physical fact was ugly it had to be dismissed, or at least, charmingly put—its sting drawn and made amusing and unreal. Apart from the line of pattern he was an insecure draughtsman. Pattern deals in length and breadth alone; “thickness” introduced a factor he never succeeded in mastering; so that when, as he does on occasion, he suggests light and shade or modelling, it is generally with timidity, and his unity fails. His style at its purest depends upon rhythm of line and balance of pattern, half tones of colour being arrived at by a free use of ornament upon costumes, furniture or hangings, a dotted line being frequently resorted to where a full line would have come out of place and jumbled the objects in the composition.

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