Paula Rego
Sem título (1998)
"The Ostriches couldn't have been done if I hadn't been the age I am. A younger woman wouldn't know what it was like; longing for things that are not gone, because they're inside one, but that are inaccessible."
Paula Rego
dancing ostriches
snow white swallows the poisoned apple
wendy sewing on peter's shadow
"To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable."
Paula Rego
Grooming
Sleeper
Sit
Crivelli's
Garden
Crivelli' Garden (panel 2)
"I was very scared and a bit daunted! But to find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like, Alice; you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own way into things..."
Paula Rego
Time-
Past and Present
Joseph Dream
O crime do Padre Amaro
Sem título
Flood
A dança