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Paula Rego

Paula Rego


Paula Rego - Other Resources

artfacts.net
Additional information on Paula Rego

the-artists.org
More information on Paula Rego

libraryquest.org
- Paula’s Playground
Paula’s Playground: A comprehensive fansite, covering many areas of Paula Rego’s life and her paintings; from collages, ostriches, dog women, to civelli’s garden and gallery tales.

bbc.co.uk
Paula Rego talks to Marina Warner about: her childhood, family, women and stories her father introducing her to opera and dada the red monkey, the humour in her work her painting process, her fear of nature

findarticles.com - Art and politics in the work of Paula Rego
Contemporary Review by Joaquina Pires-O'Brien. Is art a purely aesthetic phenomenon or does it contain hidden messages that can be linked to history? This is an ongoing debate in the art world but to Maria Manuel Lisboa, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Literature at Cambridge University…

guardian.co.uk - Secret histories
Born in Portugal, Paula Rego went to school in Kent and to the Slade in the 50s. Drawing and painting dramatic emotional stories, she was praised for presenting a female point of view, and became the first associate artist at the National Gallery…

guardian.co.uk
- Don't flinch, don't hide
In her paintings, Paula Rego has always shown us the grotesque, the things we might not choose to see. And she has never shrunk from describing the gothic details of her own life. These are the stories - and others, from Genet to the Bible - that are transformed in her art. Painting, she says, is more truthful than life - it all comes out. Interview by Suzie Mackenzie

bbc.co.uk - The dark nights are drawing in at Tate Britain
There is something ugly about Paula Rego’s paintings. The clunky, unrefined figures that made her famous in the 80s are undeniably skilful but equally repellent.

arlindo-correia.com - Rego meets Mr Rochester by Kate Kellaway
In the past, Paula Rego has explored fairy tales and delinquent monkeys, but her new obsession is Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and the pent-up passion of its characters

mml.cam.ac.uk - Paula Rego
Department of Spanish and Portuguese from the University of Cambridge. A vast selection of images and reproductions.

lainsignia.org - Paula Rego
Maria João Cantinho (*) La Insignia. Portugal, abril de 2003. Habituámo-nos a ver a pintura de Paula Rego nas obras de Adília Lopes, em Agustina Bessa-Luís, daí que a sua estranheza tenha sido, de alguma forma, amenizada por incorporar obras de carácter público e, mais do que isso, de grande poder mediático.




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