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...Victoria and Albert Museum. And though the artist's work seemed to critics of his time as saccharinely pornographic as orgies sculpted in marzipan, the exhibition recalls his widespread influence. Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch based some of his violent images directly on Beardsley drawings. The ballet impresario Daighilev had sets designed from Beardsley. Kandinsky and even Picasso were admirers. Beardsley's sense of abstract design even relates to the hard-edge abstraction practiced today...
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