She has the opportunity to continually re-work sections of the plates as she builds the final image without losing any of the urgency that gives her etchings their evocative directness. Entre 1945 et 1951, elle fréquenta la St. Julian's School à Carcavelos. Left: Stanley Jones prepares the slab for printing. At age ten, she moved to a specialist English school in Portugal. Summary of Paula Rego. Bit of an odd scan photo as it’s just the head but I figured it’s still exciting! Rego's work is inspirational for all young artists in its thoroughness and rigour in the combination of many different influences and styles. ‘She bought dresses and set models up in poses,’ recalls Jones. I’ll finish my look at Rego’s work with this quote from the article by Simon Hattenstone. TateShots was invited to observe Paula Rego and the team at The Curwen Studio in Cambridgeshire as they set about turning one of her drawings into an editioned print. Gender discrimination, poverty, abortion, female genital mutilation, political tyranny and the death of civilians in war – these are the themes Paula Rego explores in her thought-provoking work, which is to be celebrated in a major retrospective in Scotland. text-align: center; As a student, he remembers — smiling as he does — ‘she was a bit aggressive, but a charming lady. ‘It was an open door to so many artists,’ recalls Jones. 1966 was a difficult year for both Rego and Willing; both of their fathers died, and Willing was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. ‘She was eager to make a statement about child cruelty and feminism; that’s evident in this later work.’, Though Rego’s early relationship with lithography had been somewhat difficult, by the time produced the Jane Eyre prints, it had become the form that most convincingly conveyed her intended meaning. Her father became an electrical engineer for the British firm Marconi but when Rego was born, he was still studying. text-align: center; The technique allows her to indulge in her primary passion: drawing, and transfers her spontaneous images quickly onto the paper. Our film captures Rego at work and she tells us why drawing and printmaking is so important to her practice. Paula Rego is one of the artist’s that my tutor recommended looking at. It's not an aggression like you're hitting it; it's a sensual aggression, if you like. As a student, Jones had exhibited his own lithographic works at St George’s, a small gallery run by Robert Erskine on London’s Cork Street. See link to whole text here: http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/rego_paula_the_family.htm. Rego is an incredibly important cultural figure in Portugal, considered to be one of the nation's most famous and influential artists. Image courtesy of, The works by Paula Rego in this feature, as well as others, are offered in our online only sale, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and Patrick Heron. These two exhibitions established Rego as a political and subversive artist, and also demonstrated the influence of Surrealism, and particularly of automatism and Joan Miro on her work. Below is a link to the site where I obtained the above image and also a small commentary on the painting: http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/rego_paula_the_fitting.htm. A critic on the Saatchi site comments that  “Is the man as doomed as the dragon, or will he in fact resurface like the fox, to eat the stork, once it has removed the bone lodged in his throat?”. Every change is a form of liberation. ‘What we want the artist to do is express themselves; their reaction to lithographic printing has to be in the work itself.’. 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. ‘Soon, my fellow students — including Rego — were keen to develop printmaking,’ he recalls. font-family: 'AtlasGrotesk-Medium', Arial, Helvetica; À partir de 1952, Paula Rego a fréquenté l'école Slade School of Art en Angleterre, où elle a fait la connaissance de son futur mari, le peintre Victor Willing, avec qui elle vécut de 1957 à 1963. I’ve been fairly quiet in terms of making new things for my shop.I’ve been growing a human whilst running around after a toddler…. Image courtesy of, Stanley Jones in the the studio. Her gaze/expression however looks so passive, as if she were not actually in the room that one wonders whether she is being depicted as a pawn within the smaller woman’s game. She depicts the human figure predominately from life and thus allows her sitters to "flood you with their personality". Oct 11, 2019 - Explore Jon Mark's board "Paula rego art" on Pinterest. Nunes remained with Rego as her friend, artist companion, and primary model. Her love of children's stories, with their strong symbolism and often moralizing undertones, has particularly influenced her graphic work. Good. I couldn't keep following the rules; I had to break out.". Stanley Jones is the president of The Curwen Print Study Centre, established as an educational fine art printmaking charity in the late 1990s. But I found a copy of Aesop’s fable which I had at home, in the fable of the fox and the stork, the fox tricks the stork by pretending to invite her for a meal, only to provide a dish which she cannot eat out of due to her beak, The stork returns the trick on the fox the next week giving him a vase which he cannot eat out of due to having no beak. Paula Rego est une artiste plasticienne portugaise, née à Lisbonne en 1935. Saville presents a similar unapologetic and confrontational depiction of women. to help give you the best experience we can. He described her prints and paintings as: “disturbing by their intensity and sense of risk taking within an artwork is worth looking at.”, The first set of images are all her works and taken from the Saatchi Gallery website. Portuguese-British Painter, Illustrator and Printmaker. ©2020 The Art Story Foundation. Baby Archer No 2 due in August…. As studio director, Stanley Jones began a long series of collaborations, the Curwen ‘alumni’ expanding to include Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Elisabeth Frink, Alan Davie, Josef Herman and John Piper. Her chiaroscuro approach and macabre narratives call to mind the etchings of Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War (1810-20), but the vibrant, biting humor that underpins Rego's works imbue her prints with an exuberant originality. Surely that means each persons work cannot be judged against another’s, it is as unique as they are unique. Content compiled and written by Katie Da Cunha Lewin, Edited and revised, with Summary and Accomplishments added by Rebecca Baillie. By this point Rego was a fully-fledged public figure in British cultural life, though her work always remained intimately involved with the politics and mythology of Portugal. font-family: 'AtlasGrotesk-Regular', Arial, Helvetica; }. In 1965, Rego took part in a group show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA), called Six Artists, and in the same year had her first solo show in Lisbon at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes. Paula Rego is one of the artist’s that my tutor recommended looking at. The Portuguese have a culture that lends itself to the most grotesque stories you can imagine. Rego’s style has evolved from abstract towards representational, and she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Rego continues to live in Hampstead, North London, and travels regularly to her studio in Kentish Town.

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