Who’s Afraid of Barney Newman

Frank Bowling - Who’s Afraid of Barney Newman (1968)

 

This painting is made up of three vertical strips of green, yellow and red which occupy the left, centre and right of the painting respectively, from top to bottom. Outlines of maps of Guyana and the South American sub-continent have been stenciled in off-white paint on top of these strips in the centre of the canvas. Painted using water-based acrylics, the boundaries between the three strips of contrasting colour are ragged and indistin...