在这部马克·加蒂斯 致 奥伯利·比亚兹莱纪录片片中,奥伯利·比亚兹莱 (Aubrey Beardsley, 1872~1898):
19世纪末最著名的黑白艺术家，7岁被诊断出肺结核，英年早逝，年仅25岁。在短短的6年艺术生涯里，这位惊世之才画风多变、反叛不羁，其笔下黑与白、恶与美激荡相生，将颓荡&唯美艺术表现得淋漓尽致。
同时编写并主持此纪录片的 Mark Gatiss 认为，“比亚兹莱不仅仅是一位以性诱人的颓荡代表”。正所谓“人生有涯，艺无止境”，比亚兹莱饱受争议甚至刻意追求争议的背后，又有着怎样的艺术与信仰之争？我们将跟随加蒂斯的脚步追寻比亚兹莱，从颓废的英国伦敦到法国芒通，欣赏一场短暂而浪漫的悲喜剧。
Mark Gatiss explores the life and career of Aubrey Beardsley, an artist who wielded outrage as adroitly as his pen. A lifelong fan, Mark shows how Beardsley was more than just a genius of self-promotion who scandalised the art world of the 1890s. He was also a technological innovator, whose uncompromising attitude still feels remarkably modern. The programme follows Beardsley's fevered footsteps from his childhood in Brighton, via notoriety among the decadents of London's fin de siècle, to his early death in France in 1898 at the age of just 25. Mark argues that the key to understanding this elusive artist is his childhood diagnosis of tuberculosis. The knowledge that he was likely to die young created a prodigious work ethic. Throughout his astonishing but brief artistic career, Beardsley constantly adopted new styles - sometimes reinventing himself every few months. Contributors to the programme include Stephen Fry, who discusses Beardsley's illustrations for Oscar Wilde's banned ...
