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British & Transcontinental Art
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I posted on Paula Rego's museum, Casa das Historias, back in July and you can see that post here . I have now, finally, managed to complete the task by blogging on the exhibition inside the museum.
Paula Rego at the Casa das Historias, in Cascais.
Paula Rego is particularly known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Her style evolved from abstract towards representation, and she favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Her work often reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from her native Portugal.
Rego used two typical tropes of Western art history: 'the gaze', and 'the reclining nude'. She utilised the gaze in conscious ways to challenge the viewer by having the woman or girl look directly at the viewer or away in agony or closing her eyes in pain. The reclining nude brings up that push and pull between sexual attraction, the act of sex and the physical outcomes like pregnancy and miscarriage that occur as a result of sex.
She was a prolific painter and printmaker, and in earlier years also produced collage work. Her well-known depictions of folk tales and images of young girls, made largely since , brought together methods of painting and printmaking that emphasised strong, clearly drawn forms, in contrast to the looser st
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