Remembering Francis Newton Suja in 101 years

Painting by Francis Newton Suja | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

As Passion Week, starting from April 12, one of India’s enforcement Francis Newton Suja, one of the biggest friends of artist Krishne Khanna and the founder of Progressive Arts Group, is now known as India Modern.

Why does someone remember Suja, and how does he connect with the holy week? When he was critical to the church, he was a lover of church music and hymns. When he will visit the Church of the President’s property in the President’s property to listen to the Christmas concert of Delhi Christian Chorus with his best friend Virendra Kumar during the 1990s.

Last year at a friend’s house, 99 -year -old, Crushen recalled the archives of letters and recalled how they would visit concert together in London.

Among one of his exhibitions in 1948 at the Bombay Art Salon, ofasouza wrote: “I was born in Goa in April 1924, my parents are Roman Catholic. I am an atheist, but I developed a love for stained glass windows and church music. Praise of music.

Francis Newton Suja | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

On April 12, 2025, Francis Newton Suja must have turned 101 years old, and it is a good time to think back on the life and time of this talent and, who believed that nature was a true God.

The first time I met him in the early 1990s, he spoke about his memories of Konkani hymns sung in the month in Bombay. For those memories, his love told about many of his paintings on the echoist, which was with the life of the Chalis. These paintings displayed in Delhi this January at a 100 -year celebration by Groswon Gallery, London, bringing back the latest Vignets of Suja.

Material and creative clarity were the best partners of swoos. He can create a series of echoist studies in tables of cubist idioms and attractive aspects with pastels and paints. His choice of color and cross-hitted texture created their own synergy. All of them had their life studies with flowers made as recalling churches in childhood in childhood. Then the church and many of its multi-tight architectural nuances also became a part of their development scenario.

Painting by Francis Newton Suja | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

While one looked at his priest’s head and found them flexible as well as flexible, no one recalls their contempt for priests that they felt that they had fallen corruptly in the church service.

This April as a sacred week we should be with love and praise, remember this great Indian artist who dug the lines of contemporary art history with humble rituals born of his Catholic upbringing along with his comfortable love for holy music. The cross of Christ was a subject that he vers and vivacity. Built in Goa in Gogolgotha, was was introduced in a classic work one year ago in a auction.

The author is an art curator and critic.