Paula Rego - Dancing Ostriches
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Paula Rego was inspired by a scene in Walt Disney's animation Fantasia (1940), in which a group of ostriches perform the ballet 'Dance of the Hours' from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda (1876). Where Disney cast his dancers as animals, however, Rego translates them back into women. Across the series, her subjects rail against balletic stereotypes of youth, beauty and femininity, each a complex expression of power and vulnerability. The present work was conceived as the grand overture to the entire suite. Prominently exhibited over the past three decades, it represents an icon of Rego's practice, capturing the fables, fantasies and frictions of female experience that underpin her art. Minor bumping and creasing to the front and back covers. Internal photo pages are fine.
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