Isolde
by BEARDSLEY, Aubrey Vincent, Four-colour line etching, 178 x 126 mm
“Isolde” by Aubrey Beardsley is an illustration in the magazine Pan, volume 5, 1899. Pan (1895-1915) was a Berlin-based German arts magazine, published by the PAN co-operative of artists, poets and critics.
Beardsley offered a new understanding of the frame and pictorial plane, where the decorative line cutting across flat surfaces replace the three-dimensionality of reality.