Sentences with phrase «bohemian aristocrats»

Dubbed «Bright Young Things,» the new series recalls London in the 1920s as seen through the eyes of young, bohemian aristocrats, who were actual people that were cleverly culled together by the artist from art historical and literary sources.

The artist — who has long dealt with queer male themes — was particularly interested in accounts of those young, bohemian aristocrats suggesting that queerness was boyish charm rather than criminal aberrance.

In this recent series, he turns his attention specifically to 1920s London, and a group of young, bohemian aristocrats that emerged post-World War I.

Fraser, though, who had hung out with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the late 60s, and is the subject, alongside a handcuffed Mick Jagger, of Richard Hamilton's famous painting, Swingeing London, was one of its bohemian aristocrats.

Many of London's fashionable new boutiques catered only for well - off customers (Mary Quant's Bazaar, for example), but Biba attracted glamorous pop stars, bohemian aristocrats and impoverished students alike.

Art critic and TV presenter Alastair Sooke looks at an early Freud drawing of a «true bohemian aristocrat»

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Van Dyck's stylish yet psychologically probing work paves the way: from Turner to Sarah Lucas, artists appear themselves as glamorous creators, be that as the genteel equal of aristocrats, lofty intellectuals or bohemian wild cards.