Creating Home-Grown Gods: Angelo Da Fonseca’s Cross-Cultural Paintings
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To be a successful and widely revered God, one needs two seemingly opposing characteristics: ethereality and relatability. While we want our Gods to be otherworldly and intangible, we also need the comfort of familiarity. The advent of Christian divinity in India therefore, posed a unique challenge: how to relate to pale Gods that don velvet robes in favour of our home-grown cottons and silks? Angelo da Fonseca, a relatively unknown Goan painter, found a unique and controversial solution to this problem.
Creating Home-Grown Gods: Angelo Da Fonseca’s Cross-Cultural Paintings
Creating Home-Grown Gods: Angelo Da Fonseca’s…
Creating Home-Grown Gods: Angelo Da Fonseca’s Cross-Cultural Paintings
To be a successful and widely revered God, one needs two seemingly opposing characteristics: ethereality and relatability. While we want our Gods to be otherworldly and intangible, we also need the comfort of familiarity. The advent of Christian divinity in India therefore, posed a unique challenge: how to relate to pale Gods that don velvet robes in favour of our home-grown cottons and silks? Angelo da Fonseca, a relatively unknown Goan painter, found a unique and controversial solution to this problem.