What lies behind the enduring appeal of F.N. Souza?
1 year ago

What lies behind the enduring appeal of F.N. Souza?

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An “Untitled” work from the 1960s is currently on display as part of the retrospective, Reminiscing Souza: An Iconoclastic Vision: Celebrating The Birth Centenary Of Francis Newton Souza, at Dhoomimal Art Gallery, Delhi. The show encapsulates Souza’s comprehensive oeuvre, including his highly experimented chemical drawings, wherein the artist, after pouring a chemical on glossy pages of magazines, drew erotic and mangled figures on them. Curated by art historian-author Yashodhara Dalmia, the retrospective looks at how Souza’s legacy continues to inform the Indian art scene even today. It was this “uneasy space in Souza’s art” that became Singh’s focus for the book, especially the bold and formidable image of the female nude on his canvas, starting 1940s onwards.

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Francis Newton Souza Went Against all the Aesthetic Norms of His Day to Paint Poverty, Religion, and Sexuality
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Francis Newton Souza Went Against all the Aesthetic Norms of His Day to Paint Poverty, Religion, and Sexuality

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 09, 2024 10:28 IST - 7 MINS READ The artist Keren Souza Kohn, daughter of the legendary artist Francis Newton Souza, narrated an anecdote her father had once shared with her at his New York apartment. The art critic John Berger had famously said of Souza: “How much Souza’s pictures derive from Western art and how much …

What lies behind the enduring appeal of F.N. Souza?
1 year ago

What lies behind the enduring appeal of F.N. Souza?

Live Mint  

An “Untitled” work from the 1960s is currently on display as part of the retrospective, Reminiscing Souza: An Iconoclastic Vision: Celebrating The Birth Centenary Of Francis Newton Souza, at Dhoomimal Art Gallery, Delhi. The show encapsulates Souza’s comprehensive oeuvre, including his highly experimented chemical drawings, wherein the artist, after pouring a chemical on glossy pages of magazines, drew erotic and …

The Indispensable Modernist: Francis Newton Souza
5 years ago

The Indispensable Modernist: Francis Newton Souza

Live Mint  

Precisely 18 years ago, the tumultuous and meteoric life of Francis Newton Souza came to an end. Surely there’s little doubt he was one of our greatest painters.” Jussawalla pointed back to the artist’s A Fragment Of An Autobiography, first published to great acclaim in England in 1955, then republished in India, writing, “Hardly anyone in a city which buys, …

Francis Newton Souza: How the artist’s libido guided him in art as in life
14 years, 11 months ago

Francis Newton Souza: How the artist’s libido guided him in art as in life

Hindustan Times  

Francis was as fast with his friendships as he was fickle with his females. HT Image The bold and brutalistic curves of that life and style are on show in the Capital at ‘Volte-Face’, one of the largest exhibitions of the master’s works ever. Dalmia says Souza’s London period was his most fertile one artistically. Uma Jain, 65, chairperson of …

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