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In the work of Remedios Varo, mixed memories of childhood ... their fears ... their experiences of women, and the horror of war. Alchemy, mysticism and psychoanalysis are part of his magisterial language ..... as Luis Martin Lozano (curator of the exhibition at the MNMA) "has one foot in tradition, and the other, on experimentation, because their pictures are as puzzling questions that have no specific response "...... Biography
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The surrealist movement was an artistic side that opposed local wars and colonialism of certain countries, it emerged the end of the decade of the twenties and continued boom in the thirties, sought to capture reality through the eyes of dreams.
in this context that the painting by Remedios Varo, who despite not being recognized as the male surrealist artist, and I rescued from the experience of women, paintings full of mystical and mathematical senses.
Remedios Varo was born on December 16, 1908 at Angles, Gerona, Spain. His father, a water engineer, took his family around Spain getting to Morocco. On these trips the small Remedios learned the handling of instruments by showing parental its dominance in perspective and drawing.
At 15 years old able to join the prestigious Academy of San Fernando, Madrid, where he learned to paint, he finished his studies in 1930 and is married to Gerardo Lizarrageside, Academy classmate.
Remedies and Gerardo traveling and living in Paris for a year, where Remedios begins his exploration with the avant-garde movement, passion shared with his friend the painter Esteban French to be returning to Spain in 1932.
Remedios Varo in 1935 separated from Gerardo Liarrageside and began his approach to the surrealist movement André Breton commanded. The onset of World War II and the Nazi invasion of France to escape and makes his American friend, Varian Fry, helps her escape to Mexico.
is in this country where he began his prolific paintings, on his arrival Remedios developed several jobs to survive from illustration to illustration, advertising brochures to detailed firm as mosquitoes, which Uranga Remedios.
Not until 1952, when she married Walter Gruen, who devotes himself to painting and the 1955 has its first exhibition.
takes place in 1956 his first solo show in his works where the woman is identified with mysterious powers and regenerative connected to nature and who reject the traditional role of women and the plasma as thinking beings and objectives and not as mere objects. Remedios Varo
dies of a heart attack on October 8, 1963, a year later is the subject of a posthumous tribute at the Palace of Fine Arts and later, two solo exhibitions, one in 1971 and again in 1983, Mexico and we inherited the mysterious and scientific women watching us from his paintings.
SOURCE: Inter Press Service