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Paula wanted to increase the size of paper she used so she would have more room to manouver. The direct outcome of this decision was the Operas. Created for an exhibition of English Art called "Eight for Eighties" Paula only had two months to make the art. She decided to create works based on operas she remembered hearing as a girl from her father. One thing these all had in common was that they all delt with a girl in conflict with her parents over the man of her choice. The Operas also were a shift from painting back to the instinctive kind of drawing to which Paula always resorts to when she feels herself drifting away from the truth. Vic had also always thought she was her truest when she drew. The colors in these pieces (beige, brown, umber, black) are the same as the ones used in Ancient Egyptian frescoes but with figures which make leaps in scale from the huge dominating figures to tiny ones there is much more in common there with children's or primal art. The way Paula worked by starting at the top and working across then down and then filling in the gaps in the composition did not allow her to make any mistakes. A friend on Paula's techinque: "She is always more interested in telling the story than in paintings a picture, because to her there is no picture if there is no story to tell. There's always some sort of sacrifice going on and if she has to choose between the characters and the formal devices of the paintings, I think she will always sacrifice the painting."
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