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Figures with toy rabbit-heads stumble, bloodied and injured, through a surreal battlefield. Welcome to the fabulous, imaginative world of Portuguese fine artist Paula Rego – a heady and hypnotic...
Jan 19, 2022 · In The Artist in Her Studio (1993), Paula Rego paints herself in profile, pipe in mouth, legs spread wide, right hand placed firmly on her knee. Playing with the archetypal image of a male artist in his studio, Rego asserts her right to sit alongside them in the canon.
Jun 9, 2022 · In the distance a woman is on her knees, face to the sky, howling with pain. A scene of grief and desperation in bold smudged pastels, the work revels in an intensity that could only belong to...
Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego DBE RA GCSE GOSE GColCa (Portuguese: [ˈpawlɐ ˈʁeɣu]: 26 January 1935 – 8 June 2022) was a Portuguese-British visual artist, widely considered the pre-eminent woman artist of the late 20th and early 21st century, known particularly for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. [1]
Oct 23, 2018 · Paula Rego reinvents fairy tales with eerie scenes. As a new exhibition of her work opens, Kelly Grovier looks at how her images hover between myth and mortality.
Jun 8, 2022 · Paula Rego exposes fantasy and reality, strength and suppression, and the personal and the political in her powerful paintings.
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Jun 10, 2022 · P aula Rego, who has died, aged 87, will be remembered for a great many things - being an artist of rare wit and skill, a shrewd observer of the human condition, a master of figuration and surrealism and an impassioned storyteller, whose work imaginatively addressed the sharper end of life.
