A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter Paula Rego directed by her son the film maker Nick Willing. Rego inherited her love of opera from her father who would often take her to see performances in Lisbon while she was growing up.
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In The Family a work in acrylics that Paula Rego completed in 1988 the year her husband Victor Willing died from multiple sclerosis a mother undresses a father in a bedroomShe gazes out at us with a peaceable open expression her arm partially obscuring her husbands face.
Paula Rego. Since the 1950s Paula Rego has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. Violence eroticism and oppression converge as Regos deeply ambiguous work goes. At the time the Estado Novo New State controlled the country suppressing political freedom and drastically limiting the rights of women.
Rego was born in Lisbon in 1935. EXHIBITION By any criteria this retrospective-the most comprehensive ever mounted in the UK-of the celebrated Portuguese-British painter Paula Rego is a monumental revelatory overview of a master. In the morning Paula Rego likes opera.
Find an in-depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. The family stayed in Portugal until 1974 when the national revolution forced them to move back to London. One called Dog Woman goes.
Paula Rego Secrets Stories. Paula Rego The Firemen of Alijo 1966Courtesy the artist and Tate. Born in 1935 Rego had an upbringing that was formal but mostly happy she.
Paula Rego is a great artist and an underrated artist art historian and curator Catherine Lampert tells BBC Culture. She was an only child her family was wealthy and as such she had a comfortable upbringing. Her daughter helps one hand gripping the fabric of her fathers suit her groin pressed against his.
Rego is an incredibly important cultural figure in portugal considered to be one of the nations most famous and influential artists. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power she has revolutionised the way in which women are represented. Her father became an electrical engineer for the British firm Marconi but when Rego was born he was still studying.
View Paula Regos 631 artworks on artnet. Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego born 26 January 1935 is a Portuguese-British visual artist who is particularly known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Paula rego is a portuguese artist known for her paintings and prints which are often based on childrens folktales.
213 x 244 cm. A painter of stories celebrated for her dark complex paintings prints drawings and collages Paula Rego draws upon folk- and fairytales literature and her own biography to create politically charged deeply unsettling tableaux. I n the most staggering room in Paula Regos retrospective of seven decades painting women crouch crawl kneel and sleep.
Covering the breadth of her career from her early teens through to her octogenarian output across an expansive aesthetic field of style and technique the curation unfolds a. Paula Rego review stunning is an understatement. Regos style has evolved from abstract towards representational and she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career.
Biography of Paula Rego. Paula Rego was born on 26th January 1935 in Lisbon Portugal. This exhibition tells the story of this artists extraordinary life highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in.
Paula Rego The Vivian Girls on the Farm 19845 Fundação de Serralves Porto Portugal. See available prints and multiples works on paper and paintings for sale and learn about the artist. Directed by Nick Willing.
Her work often reflects feminism coloured by. Dame Paula Rego DBE born 26 January 1935 is a Portuguese visual artist who is particularly known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. She notes how topical and prescient her work has always been.
In the afternoon the artist prefers fado the plaintive music of her native Portugal. Paula Rego is a Portuguese artist known for her paintings and prints which are often based on childrens folktales. With Paula Rego Nick Willing John McEwen Jorge Sampaio.
The story at the heart of the painting came to Paula Rego ready-made in the form of Jean Genets play The Maids 1947 itself based on the real-life case of the Papin sisters Christine and Lea who worked as maids for a. Regos anti-fascist father and mother moved to England in 1936 for work leaving the young Paula in Portugal with her grandmother. An Enduring Journey an eye-opening retrospective of prints and select works on paper concurrently on view at Cristea Roberts Gallery Rego demonstrates a preeminent ability to get the most out of the constraints imposed by printmaking a by-product.
Regos style has evolved from abstract towards representational and she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. 1935 is one of europes most. For pastel has become regos main medium since the 1990s.
Acrylic on canvas-backed paper. Its hard not to get the sense here that through the 1960s Rego is struggling to work out whether the avant-garde legacies of art brut surrealism and expressionism could really work for her as the styles of the prewar are tried on like costumes while other more recent trends in the art of the time jostle for her interest. Strong Woman Against Female Mutilation.
Willing died in 1988 and the year after Regos career took off as she went back to paint full time.
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