bohemian life
Free-spirited artistic existence
A bohemian life is one lived unconventionally, prioritizing artistic or intellectual pursuits over material stability and social respectability.
The phrase evokes nineteenth-century artists and writers who rejected bourgeois values for creative freedom, poverty, and nonconformity: She traded her corporate career for the bohemian life of a struggling painter in Paris.
It suggests loose schedules, cheap wine, passionate conversations, and indifference to steady employment.
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
- paintingPigment on canvas
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- open-mindednessAcceptance of differing viewpoints
- freedomAbsence of constraint
creative freedom · open road · communal living · free spirit · individuality · Existentialism · artistic expression · wanderlust · nonconformity · garret · live simply · idealism · authenticity · Latin Quarter · left bank · counterculture · poetry · café culture
- Belle EpoqueMoulin Rouge, cancan, can-can, absinthe, Art Nouveau
- FranceParis, Notre-Dame, Lyon, croissant, Toulouse
- ParisEiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre-Dame, Seine, Montmartre
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
- art in fiction
- French themesParis, French Revolution, Napoleon, Versailles, French countryside