Sentences with phrase «bohemian artist friends»

John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp with several of their Bohemian artist friends climbed the narrow staircase through the steel door on the west side.

At first, Yuri's bohemian artist friends are loyal communists, but they too soon become victims of the terror.

Not exact matches

Neel chose the subjects for both her paintings and drawings from her family, friends, and a broad variety of fellow New Yorkers: writers, poets, artists, students, textile salesmen, cabaret singers, and homeless bohemians.

Referred to as «the queen of the bohemian artists,» Abercrombie entertained many jazz musicians at her home at parties on Saturday evenings and jam sessions on Sunday afternoons, including friends Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins.

As if to spite Monday night's Met Gala, 260 stylish, if less outrageously dressed, guests who have earned the right to be called bohemian filled the Ukrainian National Home for the annual Friends of Artists Space dinner honoring the founders of Semiotext (e), Sylvere Lotringer and Chris Kraus, and its current editor, Hedi El Kholti.

We should note that the artists mentioned above don't constitute a «movement» in the manner of something like Cubism or Abstract Expressionism, forged by a group of friends and rivals in the bohemian bars and coffee shops of a major city as a revolt against the prevailing aesthetics of the day.

The artist Hope Gangloff has developed a fervent following in recent years for her beautifully observed portraits of her friends, and for much of her career these captured vérité slices of life from the bohemian squalor of Brooklyn, where she lived and worked.

Bohemian romance is promoted by Dash Snow's enlarged blurry Polaroids of his young friends behaving wildly, while Michael Vasquez's Impressionistic paintings based on photographs of people and scenes from his own gangster past invoke the myth of the outlaw artist.

The artist and writer Leonora Carrington began her storied career as a comrade of the Paris Surrealists, where she was a friend to both bohemians such as Paul Éluard and wealthy patrons including Peggy Guggenheim.