{"id":548314,"date":"2026-03-27T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548314\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:05:10","slug":"sir-frank-bowlings-art-on-show-in-new-cambridge-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548314\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Frank Bowling&#8217;s art on show in new Cambridge exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cambridge has long been a place of inquiry and reflection, and I am delighted to be part of that tradition,&#8221; Sir Frank said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist, who was knighted in the Queen&#8217;s Birthday Honours in 2020, was born in Guyana in 1934 and arrived in London in 1953 at the age of 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By the early 1960s he was recognised as an original force in London&#8217;s art scene, with a style combining figurative, symbolic and collaged elements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rashid said: &#8220;These are kind of masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is work that really signifies his practice as well, and is beautifully abstracted but has meaning,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think there are a really beautiful addition that can make art more broader and add really interesting and different views on what painting can do,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cambridge has long been a place of inquiry and reflection, and I am delighted to be part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-548314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}