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In 1995, Paula Rego used pastels to revise the story of Snow White in her drawing Swallows the Poisoned Apple. In her work, Snow White is pictured after she has eaten the poisoned apple. Rego made the women look older and look like she is in some type of physical pain. Rego depicts the women's pain using the women's facial expression and body language. For example, the woman "lays clutching her skirts, as if trying to cling to life and her femininity which are slipping away". This is done to overall show what a female goes through during the processes of life and aging over the years, as well as showing the "physical and psychological violation" age plays in a female’s life. At the time the artwork was made, Rego was about 60 years old and her age did play a significant part in this artwork.