Discover illuminator, collagist, graphic artist Paula Rego

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: Figueiroa, Maria Paula
Rêgo, Maria Paula Figueiroa
Rego, Paulo Figueiroa

Qualifications: illuminator, collagist, graphic artist, illustrator, designer, painter, watercolorist, manufacturer of gouaches, pastelist, draftsperson, university lecturer, professor
Honored with her own museum in the Portuguese city of Cascais near Lisbon. In 2010, she was made a Dame of the British Empire for services to the Arts in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and was awarded the prestigious Grã-Cruz da Ordem de Sant’Iago da Espada from the President of Portugal in 2004. Rego received several Honorary Doctorates from universities including the University of St. Andrews (1999), University of East Anglia (1999), Rhode Island School of Design (2000), The London Institute (2002), Oxford University (2005), Roehampton University (2005), Faculdade de Belas-Artes at the University of Lisbon (2011), and the University of Cambridge (2015). She was the recipient of many awards such as the Honors Medal of the city of Lisbon, Portugal (2016), the Maria Isabel Barreno prize (2017), Portuguese Government’s Medal of Cultural Merit (2019) and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Harper’s Bazaar (2019)

Nationality/school: Portuguese, British

Born: Lissabon 1935-01-26

Deceased: London (England) 2022-06-08

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: was married to the painter Victor Willing (1928-1988)

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22 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1956 - 2022

Education: Slade School of Fine Art, University College (London)

1952-1956

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Londen (Engeland) 1952 - 1956
study Fine Arts at the Slade School
Ericeira 1957 - 1963
Londen (Engeland) 1963 - 1975
Rego lives and works alternately in London and Portugal
Portugal 1963 - 1975
Rego lives and works alternately in London and Portugal
Londen (Engeland) 1976
from 1976; Rego settles permanently in London

Teacher at academy/university: 1983: Visiting Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art; 1999: Honorary Doctorates in Letters from Saint Andrews University in Scotland and from the University of East Anglia in Norwich (Norfolk); 2000: Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design; 2002: Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the London Institute; 2005: Honorary Doctorates in Letters from Oxford University and University of Roehampton

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Cid, Bartolomeu
Santos, Bartolomeu Cid dos
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Dubuffet, Jean

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: animal painting (genre), figure study (main subject), figure, genre, literature (genre), mythology, still life

Medium/technique: pastel
pastel, the material she has been using in her works since the 1990s
Product: postage stamp, design for book binding, cover or dust jacket
In 2005, the British Post issued a series of stamps featuring Rego's illustrations from the novel 'Jane Eyre'.

Prijzen

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire since 2010 The Guardian, 21 juni 2010

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 22 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Bénézit 1999 , vol. 11, p. 523
Saur 1999-2000

M.M. Lisboa, Paula Rego's Map of Memory: National and Sexual Politics, Aldershot 2003
Cat. tent. Madrid 2007 (zie RKDlibrary), p. 289
R. Rosengarten, 'An impossible love: subjection and embodiment in Paula Rego's ''possesion'' ', Art History 30 February 2007, p. 83-103
M. Vanbaelinghem, 'L'école de Londres, art et histoire de l'art britanniques à la fin du XXe siècle', Perspective 2007, p. 281-304

'Portugese kunstenares Paula Rego op 87 jarige leeftijd overleden', www.nu.nl: 08 juni 2022

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Creation date: 1991-10-15; Last modified date: 2022-06-09

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