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Francis Newton (FN) Souza

Francis Newton (F.N.) Souza (1924 - 2002) was active/lived in New York / India, England.  Francis Souza is known for Avant garde still life and landscape painting, human form-heads.

One cannot walk into a roomful of Souzas without at once being forced to participate in certain passions and fears which make these violent distortions of the visual world explicable and sympathetic. Frequently these passions are not only violent but destructive, as though each painting liberated the artist from a private night-mare. His art is full of strange perversities and contradictions, too... all his most successful work seems to contain something of an emotional clash – vulgarity and tenderness, or agony and wit, pathos and satire, aggression and composure. They have some of the sheer inventiveness of Picasso ... and the same unresolved tumult.’ (Edwin Mullins, The Human and Divine Predicament, exhibition catalogue, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1964, unpaginated) By the early 1960s, Souza had achieved both fame and critical acclaim in London. In 1964, a leading critic, Mervyn Levy, described him as ‘one of the most vigorously stimulating and committed painters of our time.’ (F   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11987 characters.]  Artist bio

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