User:Ejleonh680/Frank Bowling

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Bowling is an incredibly important figure within the history of Abstract Expression as well as a movement called "Lyrical Abstraction." (The ways in which Bowling's style intersects or elaborates upon these movements is not discussed by the current Wikipedia article and could use some serious development.

(Much needed: formal analysis of Bowling's style) Bowling's work represents a unique approach to abstraction that melds bright colors, lots of pastels, with airy, cloud-like shapes.

The cultural theorist Stuart Hall has noted that Bowling's work can be placed within a broader diasporic movement in post-war art history, specifically what he refers to as a "second wave" of African artists that descended upon Europe in the nineteen sixties. His work can be clearly differentiated from those of the "first wave" and their close association with Pop-art. (This point, or any chronological situating of Bowling within his generation or art history more broadly, is not mentioned at all in the current Wikipedia article and could use some serious expanding upon).