Paula Figueiroa Rego nació en Lisboa, Portugal, en 1935. Tuvo una infancia marcada por el catolicismo en los años de la dictadura de Oliveira Salazar en Portugal. Creció con la idea del pecado como eje central y una posición especial en cuanto a niña o mujer que vive en una sociedad machista y retrógrada, lo que sin duda debió de influirle profundamente en los personajes que plasma en su pintura, “siniestros y dominantes”. Se formó inicialmente en la St. Julian’s School de Carcavelos, Portugal, y más tarde en Londres en la Slade School of Art, en la que fue alumna de William Coldstream. En esta última conocería al que sería su marido, el también artista Victor Willing. En sus primeros trabajos de las décadas de 1960 y 1970, podemos ver rasgos neodadaístas o un estilo informal, en el que mezcla técnicas diferentes con pintura y collage, en las que plasmó imágenes infantiles, fetichistas y traumáticas, rasgos fundamentales en su estilo más maduro, en el que desarrolla un camino ilustrativo y figurativo. Se le adjudican influencias de Francis Bacon y Lucian Freud pero sobre todo con Beatrix Potter y sus libros de cuentos de hadas. Podemos observar también palpables similitudes con la obra de Rola Balthus. Formó parte del London Group participando en exposiciones colectivas con David Hockney o Kitaj, entre otros. En sus obras suele tratar de realidades sociales polémicas relacionadas con la mujer, como en el caso del Tríptico de la Serie, sobre el aborto, o con otros temas políticos. Su estilo es a veces comparado con las ilustraciones de historietas o tebeos. Como en las historietas, los animales se representan a menudo en papeles y situaciones humanas. Sus últimos trabajos muestran un estilo más realista, pero en ocasiones continúan las referencias animales, la serie Dog Woman de 1990 por ejemplo, en una serie de cuadros al pastel que representa a mujeres con diferentes poses propias de perros (ladrando a la luna, etc). Ha realizado así mismo un retrato de Germaine Greer, que se encuentra actualmente en la Galería Nacional del Retrato de Londres, así como el retrato oficial del presidente portugués Jorge Sampaio. En Cascais hay un museo dedicado a su obra, la Casa das Histórias – Museu Paula Rego. Considerada en el Reino Unido como una artista inglesa, en 1989 entró en la lista de candidatos al Premio Turner, y en 2005 le fue concedido el grado de Doctor Honoris Causa de las Letras por la Universidad de Oxford. Fuentes: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/paula-rego-1823 https://trianarts.com/mujeres-pintoras-el-tenebroso-figurativismo-de-paula-rego/#sthash.Xcrl0rpG.dpbs http://www.artnet.com/artists/paula-rego/ https://www.artsy.net/artist/paula-rego https://www.wikiart.org/es/paula-rego https://theculturetrip.com/europe/portugal/articles/paula-rego-comically-grotesque-viscerally-feminine-art/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/17/where-work-artist-paula-rego-london-studio https://www.invaluable.com/artist/rego-paula-146apqe2wz/sold-at-auction-prices/ Nota: La propiedad intelectual de las imágenes que aparecen en este blog corresponde a sus autores y a quienes éstos las hayan cedido. El único objetivo de este sitio es divulgar el conocimiento de estos pintores, a los que admiro, y que otras personas disfruten contemplando sus obras.
★★★★ “Here, we see her fierce and fearless engagement with the world around her, carried out with consummate skill and singular vision” The Scotsman “I absolutely love this exhibition” Kelly Apter, BBC Radio Scotland Tuesday Review ★★★★ “A powerful response to the last half-century from a fiercely feminist perspective” The List Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance was a survey of the Portuguese artist’s work that brought politics to the fore. This major exhibition was the first ever retrospective of Paula Rego’s work to be held in Scotland. Rego is one of the most important artists living in Britain today. Born in Lisbon in 1935, she is celebrated for her intense and courageous paintings, drawings and prints. The exhibition spanned over 50 years of her international career, from the 1960s to the 2010s. It featured more than 80 works, lent from public and private collections. Rego is admired for her courageous exploration of moral challenges to humanity, such as political tyranny, gender discrimination, abortion, female genital mutilation and the death of civilians in war. Other works in the exhibition began with her Portuguese roots and lived experiences, or respond to current affairs and stories from literature, cinema, folklore, mythology and art history. The exhibition was curated by independent curator Catherine Lampert. “I always want to turn things on their heads, to upset the established order” Find out more about Paula Rego in this extensive interview she gave to The Scotsman in 2019. The exhibition organised by MK Gallery, Milton Keynes with the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Paula Rego was born in Lisbon on 26 January 1935. She grew up in a republican and liberal family, linked to both English and French culture,...
In 1998 Portuguese born artist Paula Rego created a series of work entitled Untitled. The Abortion Pastels. Rego created her work in response to a referendum to legalise abortion in Portugal, whic…
Fifty years of thought-provoking pastel artworks by Paula Rego.
The artist's new exhibition asserts her status as one of Britain's leading figurative painters.
Paula Rego was probably the most important figure in the narrative British painting. In Rego's world, nothing is as it seems.
Visceral and unsettling, Paula Rego’s art has challenged us for decades. Now, at 83, she talks to Eva Wiseman about cruel fables and the medicinal joy of champagne
A new exhibition from one of Britain's finest artists, Paula Rego
From criticism of dictatorship in her native Portugal in the 60s to the 90s abortion series and Dog Women, Paula Rego’s subjects are as relevant today as ever. As Obedience and Defiance, her first UK retrospective in two decades, opens, she talks about her work and what inspires her
Serralves hosts an exhibit on Paula Rego's paintings that encompass the artist's art work between 1960 and the present time. The display will be on show from 25th October 2019 till 8 March 2020.
Paula Rego (Portuguese/British, 1935-2022), The Drawing Lesson, 1985. Acrylic on paper, 100 x 70 cm.
Paula Rego is one of the leading figurative artists of her generation.
Now in her eighth decade, and with another new exhibition opening, she's been called 'the best painter of women's experience alive'. So why does she still feel frightened?
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Um quadro de Paula Rego, «A Madrasta», foi vendido por 220 mil euros, cerca do dobro do seu valor máximo estimado (120 mil euros), no leilão de arte moderna e contemporânea realizado terça-feira à …
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Presentó en 1999 en Lisboa una exposición en la que denunciaba "el dolor y la humillación" que sufrían muchas mujeres portuguesas al tener que recurrir
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Entre várias memórias, Ana Soares recorda o sorriso da "menina Paula" e a figura de Luzia, sua tia-avó e ama dedicada da genial artista que viveu anos fulcrais na vila jagoz.
A new exhibition from one of Britain's finest artists, Paula Rego
House of Stories: Paula Rego, a new museum dedicated to the artist is opening in Cascais near Lisbon
"Self-Portrait (Triptych), 2015 de Paula REGO - Courtesy Galerie Sophie Scheidecker © Photo Éric Simon Du 9 octobre au 7 novembre 2018 La galerie Sophie Scheidecker vous invite à découvrir du 9 octobre au 7 novembre 2018 une nouvelle exposition monogra-...
Self Portrait in Red by Paula Rego1966; Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea do Chiado (Lisbon, Portugal) © Paula Rego COLLAGE ON VIEW Paula Rego at Tate Britain in London, United Kingdom7 July-24 …
The mind of Paula Rego works as an alchemical still. She has the hability to absorb, distill and transmute essences of life and fable in which her literary readings reactivate hidden “reefs” of the subconscious. She composes visual stories in which remnants of personal and collective history, dream and memory, intertwine in each other, forming dense plots that trap us, not so much by the narration itself as by the way of joining together. Halfway […]
As Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden opens at the National Gallery following the artist’s death last year, revisit a personal essay by her son, filmmaker Nick Willing, about the moving role he played in the making of Rego’s masterpiece, “The Dance”.
"Quite why she is not more famous is difficult to fathom. Maybe her gender and style went against her?"
Fifty years of thought-provoking pastel artworks by Paula Rego.
Paula Rego, Little Miss Muffet, 1989, Etching and aquatint
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