Sunday, September 26, 2010

Boho

Bohemians- you've definitely heard of the term before, but what or who are they exactly? A Queen song about the troubles of love and life? A form of architecture? Or a way of "go with the flow" attitude about life?

In all its essence, Bohemianism is an unconventional attitude on life revolving around art, music and expression. Starting off as a French term to portray the unorthodox social views, Bohemians stood for free love and poverty.

Today Bohemians strive past the image of the starving artist and lack of personal hygiene towards a more fashion chic form of expression. Today, you’ll find Boho’s as a form hippie-chic as they put an aesthetically pleasing angle to the ‘60’s with their flowing loose fitted tops matched with a pair of skinny jeans.

Pierre Renoir Auguste 1868- The Bohemian
Even though through the ages the sense of style, music and expression has changed inevitably, the essence of Bohemians has been stagnant, as can be portrayed by this 1862 Westminster Review, “A Bohemian is simply an artist or "littérateur" who, consciously or unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art”

                                                                                                              

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