I think women accept their feelings more than men. Drawing from her own childhood memories, Paula Rego’s work illustrates corrupted folklore, where fairytale and horror converge to portray feminine experience. Thus, she began travelling to London more and more, and soon, in 1976, she along with her family, permanently moved back to London.

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In 1999, Paula received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, and the same year, she was also the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Read about our approach to external linking. In 1990, Paula was appointed as the first National Gallery Associate Artist, in London, and soon, in 1992, she was awarded an Honorary Master of Art from the Winchester School of Art, in Hampshire. Her opinion of a recent article on The Ostriches is indicative: "Not bad, considering the writer wasn't Portuguese." Artwork analysis, large resolution images, user comments, interesting facts and much more. To say a person has duende is the highest compliment. Find out more about what data we collect and use at, Quick search helps finding an artist, picture, user or article and prompts your previous searches, Login to use Arthive functionality to the maximum, Register to use Arthive functionality to the maximum, This action is only available to registered users. Ambiguity and menacing psychosis reverberate within the picture, much of it carried in the objects with which the room is claustrophobically furnished. After a hilarious morning selecting clothes at a specialist shop for dancers, where the shopkeeper was puzzled by their total ignorance of dress and shoe sizes, Rego and Nunes returned to the studio.

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Rego reserves this process, turning the birds back into people. There is a particular Iberian quality, duende, a combination of 'soul' and 'fatalism', which has no exact equivalent in English. Rego illustrates the conflict of reality encroaching on the socially imposed myths of female worth, construing aging as both a physical and psychological violation. In Snow White Playing With Her Father’s Trophies, Rego uses the allegory of female vanity to underlie a familial politic. Olga was taken on by a Portugese family to teach her native language to their daughter. That is why the series only truly makes sense as one work, one women displaying a range of emotions and positions but so changed in the drawing, only those who know Numes well would recognise it. Paula was born on May 12, 1935 in Lisbon..Paula is one of the famous and trending celeb who is popular for being a Celebrity. artnet and our partners use cookies to provide features on our sites and applications to improve your online experience, including for analysis of site usage, traffic measurement, and for advertising and content management.

Rego’s style has evolved from abstract towards representational, and she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Represented by internationally reputable galleries. You can find new.