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Francis Newton Souza (b.1924
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F.N. Souza invented a type of work on paper that he called chemicals. These are rendered images on pre-printed surfaces altered with a special chemical solution, paints, coloured pencils and ink markers to create, or in Souza's language, "transcreate," an altered image and thus an altered perception of what constitutes art. The chemicals, or chemical alterations as he called them in later years, are Souza's world and his unique contribution to the world of art, just as one could say Picasso's was cubism and its variations thereafter; or with Matisse it was his paper cut outs. If that sounds like a stretch, in Souza's world of image making it is not: the chemical alters the viewer's perception of the figure or the landscape by going beyond everyday image makers like pencils and paints to industrialize art in much the same way commercial advertising has industrialized our perception of consumer goods over the past 30 years. With the advent of radio, television, the Internet and satellite, we live in the age of instant mass communication--and voyeurism: Souza's chemical alterations are a direct reflection of the times in which we live. They spell out the new vocabulary we are inventing, in order to communicate our views and perceptions of the new world order all around us. Souza's chemical alterations inject into the world of fine art the two-dimensional voyeurism that multi-media images promote over the Internet or on video or in magazines. At the same time they re-examine the fundamental question: what is figurative art? This section offers a small selection of the chemicals that are in the estate. View Chemicals. View Other Selected Works: |
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