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Change a story, transform even the characters is what he likes to Paula Rego. For years used as a model to Lila Nunes, the nurse who cared for her husband during his long illness. Also Tony, the current partner of the artist, it is modeled. One and another appear under feminine appearance in his paintings. For example, entitled Olga, Tony is the central character, a woman dressed in black, with blond hair, holding a sort of guitar while a girl is leaning over her, his head buried between her legs, in a position unequivocally sexual.
Rego has always been recognized as a feminist artist who bears witness to the female world. In his paintings, women are omnipresent. And there are often fragile. Rather solid ladies, muscular, with faces that show strength and determination. It is as if to rewrite history, change the world in their cakes, always a little acid. "As a child, in Portugal, women wore such a difficult life, so hard, so painful at that stage of fascism. The abortion was not legal, but abortions are produced continuously, and it was unfair, and outraged me much. I did a painting on an avenging angel in the illustration on Father Amaro, [the novel by Eca de Queiroz The Crime of Father Amaro]. The final angel came to avenge Amelia, whom the priest gets pregnant and dies. It's very sad. Many people miscarried and died.
Pregnant Bunny in his work by telling their parents, 1982, Rego recreates a previous episode, the time when the artist announced to his father his own pregnancy, the result of a relationship with a married man, the British artist Victor Willing, which finally would marry in 1959. Willing he died in 1988, almost two decades after fighting against the ravages of progressive multiple sclerosis. Take care of him, feed him, give medicines, was a tough process that the artist usher in a series of pictures, girl and dog, which Willing is represented as a dog and she, as a girl committed to shave, or open the jaws to make him swallow a medicine.
"It is a fact that women are sometimes cruel to women. Why? Perhaps for fear of being cruel to men. I do not know. We're all cruel, men, children, animals. We all sometime cruel ".- Rego.
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