Paula Rego
Marcelo Guimarães Lima
Dictionary of Contemporary Women Artists, St James Press, 1999
“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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