Paula Rego, is an important artist who uses narratives within her work. From the ‘Family narratives’ to
‘Nursery rhymes’ etchings why does Rego use fables/folklore/myth within her work? What broader
cultural ideas do they allude to? Books such as Paula Rego: A retrospective by Fiona Bradley and
Judith Collins, Marina Warner’s Once upon a time: a short history of the fairy tale, is a book that
analyses the fairy tale and its cultural meanings and significance – so it is a good model of how to
look at cultural practices analytically.
