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- "No, I didn't. I don't know why, but I didn't," she replies. She rejects the idea that she was especially brave: "Every picture takes courage. All artists are brave," she says.
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The young Rego was soon conscious of the confluence of violence and power – forces she faced through drawing, and which are an abiding theme in her art. What scares her most, now she is in her eighties?
Jun 8, 2022 · Indeed, Rego was an artist very well-versed in the history of art. She recognized that the same themes - in particular the torments of love and war - are timeless strands of enquiry and as such yield the most interesting results.
- Portuguese-British
- January 26, 1935
- Lisbon, Portugal
- June 8, 2022
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]
Dec 7, 2016 · Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Dame Paula Rego (b. 1935) was one of Europe’s most influential contemporary figurative artists. A painter of “stories”, her characters enact a variety of roles and depict disquieting tensions below the surface.
Dec 17, 2021 · Paula Rego: I am not a brave person. I am rather timid and shy, unless I’ve had too much red wine. Discovering I could do whatever I liked in my work came as a relief.
Jul 6, 2021 · The painter Paula Rego is receiving some of the best reviews of her long career for her retrospective show at Tate Britain.