Sunaparanta,
Goa Centre for the Arts in collaboration
with Saffronart and Grosvenor Gallery is delighted to announce a landmark
exhibition of works by Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) titled `SOUZA in the
40s’ on Sunday, December 16, 2018, 6 pm.
Francis
Newton Souza was born in Saligao, Goa and joined the J.J. School of Art in 1940
after being expelled from St Xavier’s College for truancy and doing
pornographic drawings in the toilets. He did not last long at the J.J. School
of Art either and was again expelled in 1945 by Charles Gerrard the British
principal, as Souza and his friends had taken down the Union Jack and started a
riot. This rebellion was just the beginning for Souza. He, along with some
fellow artists then set about challenging the Annual Bombay Art Society, where
the art exhibits were old fashioned and native artists had to wait in line
behind the white ‘memsahibs’. Souzaand his fellow artists forged an alliance
and published their manifesto in 1948. They called themselves
