Subversive subtexts: Paula Rego’s The Dance (1988)
© PAULA REGO THE DANCE 1988. TATE © PAULA REGO
If one of the aims of an artist is to reveal aspects of humanity to the viewer, then Paula Rego favours the dark side. For more than 70 years she has explored— obsessively, some might say—the hidden motivations that underpin human behaviour.