F.N SOUZA : THE MASTER SERIES
“The whole meaning of Life is Life itself ”, was F.N Souza’s favourite statement. Ever so often, he repeated, “ Everything happens according to Nature’s intention”. And so he lived….and so he died….while celebrating the individual and celebrating love. His skeptical view of the establishment and his dry humour expressed itself in his paintings with a madness – whether it was his nudes, self-portraits, landscapes or the compelling Christ series. Born in Goa, Francis Newton Souza moved to Mumbai after a bout of small pox that left him scarred permanently. Always unconventional and rebellious in his ways, he was expelled from college for his radical thinking. He believed that the box of suppression and hypocrisy needed to be opened – whether it was in the Church, the upper class or the sexual repression. His expressive lines ripped away all the facades and double standards and showed a raw honesty, whether he was depicting the prostitutes or women he had slept with or the depictions...