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Dreams and metamorfoses. The Surrealism of Paula Rego

Paula Rego (1935-2022) is one of Portugal’s most renowned contemporary artists. She lived and worked in London, where she studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1952 and 1956. Her artistic training at the Slade was decisive in nurturing a line of enquiry and in prompting the consequent search for, and discovery of, a personal figurative language shaped by the stories and images of her childhood and her country. However, the cornerstone of her creative process does not lie in her academic training, but in her imagination, which forms the foundation of her artistic identity.

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© Paula Rego by Nicholas Sinclair