Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo ( born December 16, 1908 in Anglès; † October 8, 1963 in Mexico City) was a Spanish surrealist painter.

Life

She studied at the " Academia de San Fernando" in Madrid. Her first marriage was in 1930 with Gerardo Lizarraga, another student of the Academy, with whom she lived in Barcelona. There she met the painters of the avant-garde know. They separated in 1935 by Lizarraga and learned shortly after the writer Benjamin Péret know, who took part as a volunteer on the side of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. The two married in 1936 and went to Paris. There they came up with the surrealist painters of the group led by André Breton in conjunction. After the Nazi invasion of the two fled first to Marseilles and then to Mexico, where they again wrong in intellectual and revolutionary circles (including Leonora Carrington, Octavio Paz and Gunther Gerzso ). The marriage with Péret was divorced in 1947. Varo went for two years to Venezuela. Upon their return to Mexico City, she met Walter Gruen, whom she married soon after. From then on she devoted all his time to painting.

Work and significance

My first influence was Salvador Dalí. Unlike him, their representations of dreams, daydreams and symbols are totally awesome, full of wit and mystery. Your surreal dream - figures stand out in each painting. The nature, alchemy, the supernatural and the woman as the source of sensibility are its main themes. She used primarily in egg tempera technique of the old masters with fine brushwork on self- prepared panels.

2001 her paintings were officially declared by the Mexican government for " national treasure ". Green donated 39 of her works to the " Museo de Arte Moderno ," in Mexico City as a gratitude that the two had found a second home in Mexico can. The paintings can be viewed as a permanent exhibition in the hall " Xavier Villaurrutia " of the museum. Your niece Beatriz Varo Jimenez, demanded entitled to them, but in 2006 they were finally awarded to the Mexican government.

Judgments of contemporaries

The Surrealist and director Luis Buñuel wrote in his memoirs that he " just admire as Max Ernst " Remedios Varo ( My Last Sigh, Berlin 2004, p 158).

Special painting

  • Premonición ( foreshadowing ), 1953
  • Paraiso de los Gatos (Paradise of cats ), 1955
  • La Despedida ( The Farewell ), 1958
  • Retrato del Dr. Chávez ( portrait of Dr. Chavez ), 1958
  • Creación de las Aves ( Creation of the Birds ), 1958
  • El Relojero ( The Clockmaker ), 1958
  • Nacer de Nuevo ( Born again be ), 1960
  • Mujer del Saliendo psicoanalista (woman leaving the Psychoananlytikers ), 1960
  • Hacia la Torre ( to tower ), 1960
  • La Huida ( The Flight ), 1961
  • Taxi acuático (water taxi ), 1962
  • Vampiros Vegetarianos (Vegetarian Vampire ), 1962
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