メトロポリタン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (メトロポリタン美術館Instagram)「“I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.” — Edgar Allan Poe 😱 ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ National Cat Day + spooky season = Mr. Poe⁣ ⁣⁣ In December of 1893, artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was commissioned to illustrate a new American edition of Poe's "Tales of Mystery and the Imagination." Beardsley accepted, writing that the material offered "an admirable chance of picture making."⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Responding to Poe's "The Black Cat" in this spine-chilling illustration, Beardsley shows the ferocious one-eyed feline that the narrator mistakenly walled up with the corpse of his wife. Revealed when the wall is broken through, the furious animal sits on the dead woman’s upright head, which Beardsley represents with masterful economy, using black lines against a white ground. In contrast, the background wall and cat are almost completely black, apart from a circular patch of white fur on the chest. ⁣⁣Spooky! ⁣⁣ ✍️ Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, 1872–1898). The Black Cat, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895-96, 1894. Pen, brush and India ink over graphite.」10月30日 7時58分