Using these influences, his paintings often depict
androgynous boys on the edge of adulthood in narratives drawn from Oscar Wilde, Joris - Karl Huysmans, and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period.
Bas, 26, is known for his dark and dreamlike portrayals of
androgynous boys in scenes of love, longing, or impending doom.
Their subject matter ranges from
androgynous boys to Hasidic Jews, from upper - class, Wilhelmine German students to a bright - eyed country boy perhaps on his way to becoming a fascist tough.
Not exact matches
Livescience reported on the most hated baby names in America and it appears that
androgynous names, like Madison and Addison, are very unpopular but only when given to little
boys.
Or is it more about that sweet spot of 1976 when all outfits were
androgynous, not because the women wore «borrowing from the
boys» but more so because the guys were possibly borrowing from their sisters, and everyone — bless their ability to suck it in or suck it up — wore those aforementioned, perfect, high waisted jeans?
Not far from this, the Swedish film Something Must Break is a love story between an
androgynous young man and a «straight»
boy who tried to feminise him to fit into his hetero world.
There, the
boy picks up soccer and boxing, making friends with a green - haired
boy (Jan - Philip Hollström), Gunnar's voluptuous glassworks colleague Berit (Ing - Marie Carlsson), and an
androgynous girl called Saga (Melinda Kinnaman) who poses as a
boy to play on the soccer team.
In the bottom drawer of her desk, between swatches of silk and old business cards for Spencer Interiors, she has two photos of James Dean, one of a deeply wistful Jeremy Irons in Brideshead, arm in arm with the
boy holding the teddy bear, a sepia print of Rudolph Valentino in 1923, without burnoose or eyeliner, B. D. Wong's glossies as Song Liling and as his own lithe,
androgynous self, and Robert Mapplethorpe slipping sweetly out of his jeans in 1972.
But there are people after him — an
androgynous assassin and her
boy are on his trail, and it doesn't look like Max is going to make it out of Paradox alive.
Smith invited male artists to collaborate by performing as alter egos — with Kim Jones (as Vietnam veteran Mudman), Paul McCarthy (as an
androgynous bad
boy), Allan Kaprow (as a sage patriarchal figure), and Victor Henderson (as a tantric sex partner), alongside Smith's ex-lover Dick Kilgroe.
They perfectly personified the age with the
androgynous image of their lead singer,
Boy George, and hits like Karma Chameleon which was number one on the US charts for over 20 days starting the week of January 29, 1984.