Art critic Jugneeta Sudan on artist FN Souza’s woman on canvas and their singular identities | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Art critic Jugneeta Sudan on artist FN Souza’s woman on canvas and their singular identities | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Ruchika Goswamy |Updated: October 19, 2019 11:46:22 am

Art critic Jugneeta Sudan on artist FN Souza’s woman on canvas and their singular identities

Goa-based Sudan said Souza seemed to portray women more naturally than any other female portrait artists she had seen in Western art history.

In FN Souza’s art, the women are in their most natural states, running, bathing, laughing, and singing

I walked in one day, because I saw the golden nude through the glass window of the exhibition gallery. But it was weird, I thought, seeing myself in the woman. The golden nude was different,” said Jugneeta Sudan on her first encounter with Francis Newton Souza at an art exhibition in Goa. No artwork of his hangs in any public gallery. When people speak about Souza, they say two things in the same breath — that he is one of the most brilliant artists of modern times and that he cannot be displayed in living rooms. “A very paradoxical statement,” says Sudan, during her talk, “Making Women Visible” at TIFA Working Studios, in Pune.