Remedios Varo
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María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga was a Spanish surrealist painter, writer, and graphic artist. Her work features Surrealist worlds, where science, mysticism, and magic mix together.
Varo at her easel, 1958
Accidentalitat de la dona - Violència, c. 1932–1936
Roulotte, 1956
La huida, detail, 1961
Women surrealists
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Women surrealists are women artists, photographers, filmmakers and authors connected with the surrealist movement, which began in the early 1920s.
Remedios Varo
…Scholarship on Varo's body of work has mainly focused on her experience of exile and travel, her esoteric and philosophical influences, or her place as a woman in the Surrealist movement. Mexican philosopher Juliana González, a friend of Varo's, writes that an element of "Romantic optimism" in her art distinguishes Varo from the broader…
Remedios Varo, Exploration of the Source of the Orinoco River, 1959.