artistic circles

Where painters gather

Artistic circles refers to the community of artists and those involved in creative fields—painters, sculptors, musicians, writers, and their patrons, critics, and enthusiasts.

The phrase implies an interconnected social world with its own standards and conversations: The scandal was well known in artistic circles.

Someone who moves in artistic circles associates with creative people and frequents their gatherings.

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cultural milieu

artistic circlesfinancial sector

Economic domain handling money

Wall Street · corporate culture · commercial interests · merchant class · bourgeois society

institutional formality

artistic circlesbureaucracy

Rigid administrative system

civil service · corporate hierarchy · officialdom · professional class · managerial class

cultural orientation

artistic circlesbourgeois society

Commercial class's social system

Middle America · suburbia · the masses · popular culture

Family

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