My essay on the art practice of the international artist FN Souza has appeared in the Joao Roque Literary Journal edited by the excellent Selma Carvalho ( based in London). Regards Jugneita
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *'Selma Cardoso' via The Goa Book Club* < goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com> Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Subject: [GOABOOKCLUB] Souza Painted Hell by Jugneeta Sudan To: The Third Thursday Goa Book Club <goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com> “I have made art my metabolism. I express myself freely in paint in order to exist ...” wrote Souza of his credo as a painter in the 1940s. “When I press a tube I coil. Every brush stroke makes me recoil like a snake struck with a stick. I hate the smell of paint. Painting for me is not beautiful. It is ugly like a reptile …” The controversial alter ego of Souza pulls and repels in equal measure. His first persona of a Goan-born Indian artist and a pioneer member of the Bombay Progressive Artist Group (PAG) is regarded well in the art world. He led Indian art after independence and imparted it a modernist idiom. A good writer with a powerful language, he became the spokesman of the PAG. He worked on a manifesto in which he stated, “They wanted to take art away from the sophisticated arty-arty crowd”. Read full text here: https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/ 2017/7/26/souza-painted-hell-a-review-of-his-legacy Best, Selma -- *** Please be polite and on-topic in your posts. *** --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Goa Book Club" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to goa-book-club+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','goa-book-club%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> . To post to this group, send email to goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com');>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/goa-book-club. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ msgid/goa-book-club/183662931.6396132.1504688234408%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-book-club/183662931.6396132.1504688234408%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
