It is profoundly gratifying to learn that another fellow Goan, Lancelot Ribeiro, who “pioneered the use of acrylics in the 1960’s”, has now garnered the paternal accolade as the “Godfather of generations of artists using acrylics as an alternative to oils”. Before Lancelot, it was Abbe Faria, with the paternal accreditation of the “Father of Hypnotism”.
However, there is a disconcerting assertion in Wikipedia and elsewhere (http://www.art-mine.com/for-sale/paintings-submedium-acrylic/history-of-acrylic-painting) that acrylics was first patented by Otto Rohm in 1934, and its application thereafter, grandfathered by other artists several years before Lancelot was born, or decades before he settled for the palette. Some tweaking or re-wicking of our cultural lampiao might help disperse any conflicting chiaroscuro re the timeline of the invention of acrylics, and its subsequent application and influence as an alternate medium in fine art. Similarly, a couple of notations in Wikipedia have chiseled away Panduring Ramchandra Kamat’s name from the plaque, attributing credit to him as the creator of the landmark statue of Abbe Faria in Panjim and in its place, inscribing the name of Constancio Fernandes. Ouch! Is someone tempering with our cultural lampiao or is it time for someone to invent a lunar operated lampiao so that the likes of me, stranded in time’s wheelchair, can successfully navigate ourselves to the nearest Asilo instead of ending up, unescorted, in one of Sweden’s more populated “no-go zone”?!. Dom Martin Message: 7 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 22:32:48 +0530 From: Frederick FN Noronha ????????? ???????? *??????? ??????? <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>, DAN DRISCOLL <driscoll....@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Lancelot Ribeiro... the godfather of generations of artists using acrylics as an alternative to oils. (via Wikipedia) Message-ID: <cae9-sprcv0mcn-wyo-xbhey+poq6pw_glzjha1sroxh1anz...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 12 March 2017 at 20:39, Dan Driscoll <driscoll....@gmail.com> wrote: > from Dan Driscoll, in Nova Scotia Canada: Have you heard of an Artist > domiciled in Kankavli (Sindudurgh) by name Naminand Modak? He did several > things for me when I was in Goa, and a large portrait of my wife Germana > still hangs in the Betim Flat now owned by my sis-in-law Sarita Diniz. > > Modak is in my view 'extraordinarily talented', for b/w etching work and > canvas (Oil/Acrylic). He does fine portrait work from photo/snapshots. His > Art Studio is in the 'bazaar-peth, Kankavli. I had him do a large portrait > of 'Fr. Amalor' (D.S. Amalorpavadass) the founder 'Acharya-guru' of Anjali > Ashram in Mysore. Modak commutes in and out of Goa on pretty regular basis. > Thanks for sharing about Modak, Dan. He does seem to be an interesting person. How's Canada treating you? We still think of you here ... Stay in touch. Regards, Frederick -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha _/ Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at https://archive.org/details/goa1556 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
