Paula Rego

 Marcelo Guimarães Lima 

Dictionary of Contemporary Women Artists, St James Press, 1999
 




Paula Rego


“Nothing in Paula Rego’s art is simple and direct as it seems at first” wrote a critic. In its “post-modern” play of substitutions and commentaries, Paula Rego’s paintings are works that take into account  the spectator’s gaze, his/her fears and desires. And if it is  possible to do so in the Post-Modern context without the element of irony, we can also say that here, for better or worse, irony is simply the other side of innocence. In the meta-ironic, it is irony  that pays involuntary homage to our capacity to believe no matter what, to marvel, to fear what is no more (but also no less) than shadows of our own heart.”

Marcelo Guimarães Lima


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