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Jan 12, 2022 · His flamboyant clothes and hair complemented the gender-bending, swashbuckling style of the New Romantics; he’s referenced in the music video for British band Visage’s 1981 single “Mind of a Toy”; and a 1986 Garbage Pail Kid trading card, “Blue-Boy George,” mashed up the painting and the androgynous Culture Club lead singer.
May 15, 2022 · Christine Riding, the Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of British Paintings, explains all in this short talk about 'Gainsborough's Blue Boy': This is a YouTube video player.
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough is one of the most famous British paintings, and it is back in the UK's national gallery after spending a century in the ...
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In addition to viewing Gainsborough's Blue Boy in public venues, the painting also appeared in publications and as individual black-and-white and colour prints. It became a popular ceramic figure and showed up in advertisements.
Jun 29, 2021 · One of British art's most famous paintings, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, is to return to the UK 100 years after it left. The 1770 masterpiece will be loaned to the National Gallery,...
The bemused model holds our gaze knowingly. An advert inside proclaimed a brotherhood of ‘The Blue Boy’ that is, “suave, cultured, sophisticated, discrete, sincere... a philosophy that Gainsborough’s 'Blue Boy' expresses so very clearly to the discerning.”
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Jan 19, 2022 · Cole Porter’s popular 1922 song “The Blue Boy Blues” gave the boy a voice, lamenting how “a silver dollar took me and my collar/to show the slow cowboys” across the Atlantic.
