Second of six programmes.
Germaine Greer has described Paula Rego's power as 'undeniably, obviously, triumphantly female'.
'These paintings ... set the nerves deliciously and disturbingly on edge', wrote William Packer.
Her work has always been powerful and has contained 'secrets', but it has seen many changes; the methods have ranged from drawing, through collage to painting. Her characters have moved from primitive cyphers to a cast of boisterous animals and, more recently, young girls in strange, sometimes threatening interiors.
In The Artist's Eye,Ã Paula Rego looks back on the work of 35 years, revealing the enthusiasms and events that have helped shape what she calls 'the story of my life in images'.
(Ceefax Subtitles)
