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Remedios Varo

Life:

Childhood:

During her childhood, she was influenced by her dad who was an engineer. Her dad taught her how to draw

Schooling:

Varo graduated from an art school and pursued Surrealism and Political Change.

Schooling

On the move:

Varo moved to Paris, France. She later found out she couldn't go back to Spain due to the Spanish Civil War. World War II threatened paris. Varo was arrested. She fled to Paris right into the Nazi Invasion.

On the move

Work Life:

Work Life

Varo remained friends with fellow refugees from her European Surrealist Circle. Leonora Carrington was her clostest friend and collaborator. Varo supported herself through Commercail Illustration.

Artwork:

La Llamada (The Call)

La Llamada

"Wearing flowing robes and carrying alchemical tools, including a mortar and pestle at her collar, she traverses a sort of courtyard. Her hair forms a brilliant swirl of light, which seems to bring her energy from a celestial source."

The Souls of the Mountain

"In this early work, mountains, depicted as slender volcanic tubes rise from light-imbued mist."

The souls of the mountain

Insomnia

Insomnina

"In a bare room, two large crystalline-winged moths flutter between a dark interior window and a burning candle. Pairs of floating eyes stare out at the viewer from doorways to more empty rooms."

Solar Music

Solar music

"In luminous colors of earth, a figure wrapped in a mantle made from entwined forest foliage, draws a musician's bow across a light ray that intersects the painting"

Star Catcher

"In luminous colors of earth, a figure wrapped in a mantle made from entwined forest foliage, draws a musician's bow across a light ray that intersects the painting"

Star Catcher

Creation of Birds

"In an austere setting that is suggestive of a monk's cell as well as countless images of St. Jerome in his study, an equally academic hybrid owl-woman is seated at her desk painting a bird."

Creation of birds

Cites:

Cites:

Remedios Varo: Artist Profile. (2020, June 03). Retrieved November 23, 2020, from https://nmwa.org/art/artists/remedios-varo

Remedios Varo Artworks & Famous Paintings. (n.d.). Retrieved November 23, 2020, from https://www.theartstory.org/artist/varo-remedios/artworks/

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