Francis newton souza biography channel
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An art collector remembers how his friend FN Souza changed his life forever
Every time I entered Francis Newton Souza’s apartment in New York City, it felt like passing from the familiar into a vortex of pure fantasy. The passage of hours and minutes slowed down to an uncanny crawl. Though he was a physically small man, in that space, his personality loomed outsized. At first glance what initially appeared to be an irredeemably chaotic jumble of art supplies, papers, books, plates of food, and stacks of videotapes, was eventually revealed to possess distinct order, and even a kind of unique harmony. This was the 1990s, but every signifier of the times ceased to exist the moment you walked up the narrow staircase to his Upper West Side aerie, and crossed the threshold. Now you were on Souza Time.
The transition never stopped being deeply disorienting. Everywhere around you, piled precariously on every flat surface, and lined up on every wall, were extraordinary masterpieces. You we
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FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA ARTWORK AND BIO
Francis Newton Souza
1924-2002Francis Newton Souza was born in 1924 in Saligaon, Goa.
His father Joseph Newton died at the age of 24 within three months after Souza’s birth. In 1925 Souza’s mother shifted to Bombay with him.
In 1937 he was enrolled in the St. Xavier’s High School, Mumbai. In 1939 he was expelled for drawing graffiti in a toilet, which he claimed he was correcting, but the priests did not accept his claim. In 1940, at the age of 16, Souza joined the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. In 1945 he received his Diploma in Painting. From 1940 to 1946 he made several attempts to participate in Bombay Art Society Annual Exhibition, Mumbai but he was constantly rejected. In 1945, when he was 21 years old, he was expelled from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai for supporting the Quit India Movement.
In 1947 he married Maria Figuiredo and divorced her in 1964. In 1947
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F. N. Souza
Artist of modern Indian painting (1924–2002)
Francis Newton Souza (Portuguese: Francisco Victor Newton dem Souza; 12 April 1924 – 28 March 2002) was an artist of modern Indian painting, and a founding member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. His style exhibited both decadence and primitivism.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Francis Newton Souza was born Francisco Victor Newton de Souza to Goan Catholic parents in the village of Saligão. After his father and then his elder sister passed away, he and his mother moved to Mumbai in 1929.[3] Souza's mother remarried, and his half-brother was the painter Lancelot Ribeiro.[4]
Souza attended St. Xavier's College in Bombay, but he was expelled in 1939 for drawing obscene graffiti in the restrooms.[5][6] He then studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay but was also expelled from that school in 1945, because of pulling down the Union Jack flag during