[?daDa?]  [AH Index]  [^^Terms index of indexes]
Remedios Varo

See also:  -[Surrealism]-
           -[Hanna Weiner]-
               -[Hannah Weiner, surreal texts, etc]-
           -[Frida Kahlo]-
           -[Rene Magritte]-
           -[Morphing: A/H (series)]- (abstract morphing process)

On this page:  {}
               {}
               {}
               {}
               {Chrono}
               {Links}

Intro



Remedios Varo
(b, 1908.12.16, Anglès, Girona, Spain; d, 1963.10.08, Mexico City, Mexico)


"Creation of the birds"
   via: http://artg33k.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2252bb78a8fdb00cd9702c5254cd5.html


In a survey text on women in art, that was my
first encounter with Varo - and superbly so,
it's always reminded me of another (and
contemporary to her) SurRealist:

  
  "The Clairvoyant"
  (La clairvoyance)
    via: http://www.postershop.com/Magritte-Rene/Magritte-Rene-La-clairvoyance-9952603.html

Much of her work involves mechanisms (no doubt an 
influence of her father's profession as a engineer
specialising in Hydraulics) and linkages - directly
in the mainstream of Dada as well as "modernism";
eg, as in some of Leger's works.
 -[A/H: Machines]-

               
-^_6
  

Chronology

According to wiki:

   Remedios Varo Uranga was[is/will-always-be] 
   a Spanish-Mexican, para-surrealist painter. 
   During the Spanish Civil War she fled to 
   Paris where she was largely influenced by 
   the surrealist movement. She met her husband, 
   the French surrealist poet Benjamin Peret, 
   in Barcelona. She was forced into exile from 
   Paris during the Nazi occupation of France 
   and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941. 
   She initially considered Mexico a temporary 
   haven, but would remain in Latin America for 
   the rest of her life. ...

   In Mexico she met native artists such as 
   Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Her strongest 
   ties were to other exiles and expatriates, 
   notably the English painter Leonora Carrington 
   and her great love, the French pilot and 
   adventurer, Jean Nicolle. Her last major 
   relationship was with Walter Gruen, an 
   Austrian who had endured concentration 
   camps before escaping Europe. Gruen believed 
   fiercely in Varo, and gave her the support 
   that allowed her to fully concentrate on 
   her painting.
      -[wiki]-

 
  

Links

   -[Superb JUMP page!]- (tips towel to "Hungry Flower" fan)

   -[Good Biography and book ref]- (Varo Registry)

   -[v. Nice fan site]-  

 wiki:  -[wiki]-