TO SING DANCE AND STEAL.....
TO SING ,DANCE, AND STEAL - Diderot wrote that very philisophical statement in the 18th century....related of course to Bohemia and that was what this yet again block buster exhibition which opened yesterday in Paris was all about. Bohèmes....what immediately comes to mind when you hear, read or say that word???? For me it’s colour, artist, theatre, dance, music, singing....Carmen...temptation, seduction, marginal.... and I could go on. Of course, there is the dramatic, dark and sad side to Bohemia and that's what it seemed to be. From my point of view this turned out to be one of the most macabre exhibitions I may have seen. Dark, texts which were very difficult to read as printed in grey lettering on light backgrounds....and a lighting which made me feel I was wandering through a funeral parlour rather than bohemia. The figure of the Bohemian first appeared in the mid-19th century, between Romanticism and Realism, at a time when the artist’s status was undergoing a profo