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"It is in depicting heads that Souza introduced his most inventive features that bring to the fore his whole painterly arsenal. His use of color is conventional with thick, ridged strokes of paint squeezed straight from the tube on to the canvas. (Yashodhara Dalmia, `The Making of Modern Indian Art`, 2001)
Souza`s imagery of the prophet though distorted, has an expressive content. Understood by strong lines and colors, Souza`s works... "It is in depicting heads that Souza introduced his most inventive features that bring to the fore his whole painterly arsenal. His use of color is conventional with thick, ridged strokes of paint squeezed straight from the tube on to the canvas. (Yashodhara Dalmia, `The Making of Modern Indian Art`, 2001)
Souza`s imagery of the prophet though distorted, has an expressive content. Understood by strong lines and colors, Souza`s works acquire the required iconic proportion. The title, `Prophet` claims the reverence of the viewer or atleast attention, which was the artist`s objective. Raised in a staunch Catholic environment, religious icons enamored Souza to the point of distortion pushing his focus on the image of the deity and the church with its assortment of symbols.
"The Roman Catholic Church had a tremendous influence over me, not its dogmas but its grand architecture and the splendor of its services. The priest, dressed in richly bordered vestments, each of his garments from the biretta to the chausible symbolizing the accoutrement of Christ`s passion." (F.N. Souza,`Words and Lines`, London, 1959)

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