Nick Willing
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
It's still quite shocking to look at because you get a sense of war in a way that you don't through the images we see on the television, the photographs we see in the newspaper.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
There is an expressive quality in that painting.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
that covers odd feelings of war that you don't get from those other images.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
And so then she started to become more and more interested in these dolls.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
It's the Portuguese word for dolls, bonecos.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
She started making lots of papier-mâché dolls.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
Mum taught at the Royal College for a while.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
She thought she was so interesting this.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
It's very interesting this because she had quite a low opinion of herself.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
She always said, oh, I'm a terrible teacher.
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
I only tell people what they want to hear.