Paula Rego: Telling Tales

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FilmPublisher number: 1328952 | KanopyPublisher: Jake Auerbach Films, 2009Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

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Summary: Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is that great rarity an artist with a truly international reputation. Her lasting significance is beyond doubt. Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery in London, describes her as a major figure who has "taken her own childhood experiences, memories, fantasies and fears, and given them universal significance". For Germaine Greer, whose 1995 portrait by Rego hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, her work is both feminist and subversive; "It is not often given to women to recognise themselves in painting, still less to see their private world, their dreams, the insides of their heads, projected on such a scale and so immodestly, with such depth and colour." Art critic Robert Hughes says simply that Rego is the "best painter of women's experience alive today". ..Jake Auerbach’s films have successfully captured artists and their work for more than twenty years; his subjects have ranged from heroes of the past such as Sickert, Titian and Rodin (a film described as "the best film on sculpture ever made"by Sir Anthony Caro) to contemporary masters such as R. B. Kitaj, Frank Auerbach, John Virtue, Allen Jones and Lucian Freud ("A beautiful and telling film, and somewhat disturbing too"The Guardian). Though described as arts films Auerbach says his documentaries are "portraits of extraordinary people who make marvellous things, many of whom happen to be artists”. .."Paula Rego: telling tales"follows Rego over a period of 12 months. During six interviews she talks with humour and candour to reveal her most private stories and to explain how these experiences are woven into her pictures; she faces her demons, the same demons that form the foundations of her compulsion to make work which keeps her "monsters"at bay. The resulting film is a painfully intimate and surprisingly funny look into the private world of Paula Rego.

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Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is that great rarity an artist with a truly international reputation. Her lasting significance is beyond doubt. Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery in London, describes her as a major figure who has "taken her own childhood experiences, memories, fantasies and fears, and given them universal significance". For Germaine Greer, whose 1995 portrait by Rego hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, her work is both feminist and subversive; "It is not often given to women to recognise themselves in painting, still less to see their private world, their dreams, the insides of their heads, projected on such a scale and so immodestly, with such depth and colour." Art critic Robert Hughes says simply that Rego is the "best painter of women's experience alive today". ..Jake Auerbach’s films have successfully captured artists and their work for more than twenty years; his subjects have ranged from heroes of the past such as Sickert, Titian and Rodin (a film described as "the best film on sculpture ever made"by Sir Anthony Caro) to contemporary masters such as R. B. Kitaj, Frank Auerbach, John Virtue, Allen Jones and Lucian Freud ("A beautiful and telling film, and somewhat disturbing too"The Guardian). Though described as arts films Auerbach says his documentaries are "portraits of extraordinary people who make marvellous things, many of whom happen to be artists”. .."Paula Rego: telling tales"follows Rego over a period of 12 months. During six interviews she talks with humour and candour to reveal her most private stories and to explain how these experiences are woven into her pictures; she faces her demons, the same demons that form the foundations of her compulsion to make work which keeps her "monsters"at bay. The resulting film is a painfully intimate and surprisingly funny look into the private world of Paula Rego.

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