Paula Rego, born in Portugal, has been described as “heiress to Goya’s Iberian darkness.” She is a master of aquatint, exploiting the medium to its most eerie and provocative ends. In this visionary image, Straw Burning, a dazed bride wanders through a hellish sea of frightening forms—menacing goat, screaming sunflower, aquiline demon, overgrown grasshoppers, sinister mice. The gradations of aquatint tone in the background set this netherworld aflame. The print comes from Rego’s Pendle Witches series, accompanied by poems by the British poet Blake Morrison.
Серия картин и гравюр на тему детских стишков, выросшая из работы в Национальной галерее, путешествует с 1991 по 1996 год по Британии и за её пределами под эгидой Совета по делам искусств Великобритании и Британского совета.
