Friday feels… When Guyana-born British artist Frank Bowling was studying at the Royal College of Art, his tutor insisted he do his thesis on abstract art pioneer Piet Mondrian. This “really got up my nose at the time”, Bowling writes in a piece for the new issue of Elephant. This painting, however, the renowned Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-3), captured his attention. “It’s a vital and pulsating painting that I saw for the first time in the summer of 1961 at MoMA,” he explains. Thereafter, the Dutch artist would come to have a big influence on Bowling’s own gloriously coloured practice, inspired as it is by abstraction and his Guyanese roots. Pre-order Elephant 47 from Elephant Kiosk now to keep reading.
