The very first impression, to me, is "bleeding" and "realistic"
Check her "snow white" series, they are very far from fairy-tale.
What we seen, is the critical side of the story:
The poisonous apple given by the stepmother, and what snow-white tried to protect, is
her virginity. (That is what has been described in the book, however, me and my friend were wondering why would an apple related to "virginity" ?!........Later I thought of the symbol of apple in christianity, apple = sin, that might explain something.)
This one is from snow-white series as well, the woman in the black dress bending her knee like being punished in the back is most likely her stepmother, remember in the story, the first time snow-white was supposed to be murdered by a hunter, turns out that she not only survived, but even the hunter (killer) was enchanted by her, the expression on snow-white's face definitely shows the victory she made.
The women figures appearing in Paula's painting are mostly sharp and man-ish, as well as the body, people who are used to venus-like images, for example, botticelli from the Renaissance (check the work by him below).
The subject of this one is "Angel", the women who holds a sword on her right hand and a sponge on her left hand.
Ms Rego used a lot of materials and stories from Disney world. Like the following work, she is inspired by the Disney "fantasy". The muscularity of these ballerinas is very obvious.
Ms Rego is also a Practitioner of Realism, in lots of her works, she created the model, setting the exact gesture for the figures, before she composed.
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