Title
La casa de Celestina, by Rego (2000)
Creator
Rego, Maria Paula Figueiroa (1935-)
Date
2000
Description
"Paula Rego paints a world of dark fairy tale where childhood stories are thin guises for psycho-sexual intrigue and taboo, where magical realism rules, where nothing is certain except the witchy powers of feminism, and the underlying notion that nothing is as it seems. The picture begins with the story of Celestina, a character who appears in Spanish literature in the late fifteen century. Celestina was a procuress and Paula Rego draws her as she draws all her women – tough, practical, ruthless. The picture uses the story of Celestina to explore the ages of women, although as Paula Rego wryly comments, if there are seven ages of woman as of man, then her Celestina has already lived through at least thirteen."
In: http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/rego_paula_celestina_house.htm
In: http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/artpages/rego_paula_celestina_house.htm
Source
Relation
Bibliography
•Weissberger, Barbara F. "The Genesis of Paula Rego's A Casa de Celestina." La pluma es lengua del alma: Ensayos en honor de E. Michael Gerli. Eds. E. Michael Gerli y José Manuel Hidalgo. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, 2011. 407-32.
(It addresses the Portuguese painter Paula Rego and how she has interpreted and dealt with LC -particularly with the character of the party woman, in her pictorial work A Casa de Celestina. After an analysis of the painting, the scholar points out how this represents the highest stage of a feminist criticism against a repressive society that the artist had already started in other of her previous works. Finally, she dedicates a section to the possible role of Celestina as an expert in the abortion process)
•Weissberger, Barbara F. "The Genesis of Paula Rego's A Casa de Celestina." La pluma es lengua del alma: Ensayos en honor de E. Michael Gerli. Eds. E. Michael Gerli y José Manuel Hidalgo. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, 2011. 407-32.
(It addresses the Portuguese painter Paula Rego and how she has interpreted and dealt with LC -particularly with the character of the party woman, in her pictorial work A Casa de Celestina. After an analysis of the painting, the scholar points out how this represents the highest stage of a feminist criticism against a repressive society that the artist had already started in other of her previous works. Finally, she dedicates a section to the possible role of Celestina as an expert in the abortion process)
•Rego, Paula, and Abbot Hall Art Gallery. Paula Rego, Celestina’s House: Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. 12 June - 7 October 2001 ; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 18 April - 30 June 2002. Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 2001.
Format
Pastel on paper.
Dimensions: 200 × 240 cm
Dimensions: 200 × 240 cm
Embed item in your website
To incorporate this Item on your web page, copy the code provided below: