Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo (December 16, 1908 - October 8, 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter. She was born in Anglés Cataluña, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was largely influenced by the surrealist movement. She met in Barcelona the french surrealist poet Benjamin Péret and became his wife. 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. However, her strongest ties would be to other exiles and expatriates, and especially her extraordinary friendship with the English painter Leonora Carrington. Her last major relationship would be 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.

After 1949 Varo developed into her mature and remarkable style, which remains beautifully enigmatic and instantly recognizable. She often worked in oil on masonite panels she prepared herself. Although her colors have the blended resonance of the oil medium, her brushwork often involved many fine strokes of paint laid closely together - a technique more reminiscent of egg tempera. She died at the height of her career.

Her work continues to achieve successful retrospectives at major sites in Mexico and the United States.
[from Wikipedia]

Music by:Thomas Newman
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[twmoseley]

Could anyone post who the music is composed or played by?

I am very famiar with this painters work.

[DistantMirrors]

The music is composed by Thomas Newman.

[diasdeocio304]

does anybody know the name of the third painting that shows a woman in a majestic blue holding a ring near her chest??...

[DistantMirrors]

"Rompiendo el Círculo Vicioso".

[gabrielayrandy]

Remedios Varo was born after her family lost a dauther and that is why they named her "remedios" as a "remedy" for their pain, therefore she felt that she never had a place in her family but came to replace a lost dauther, that is why most of ther paintings are selfportraits and reflect all her moods and inner thougths, she is magical, one of my favourites by far !

GH

[airsunlight]

lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[julioclau]

espanola mexicana

[HuanMariaAmigos]

@circae2012 и я пупею),и не говори)

[circae2012]

I've always been an admirer of Remedios Varo's painting. It is an ode to the imagined world, a double vision of reality, a poem of vision about the relativity of our perceptions... And it's completely wonderful.

[aikipablo100]

Maravilliso!!!

[mmbmbmbmb]

AMAZING! Haunting ~ goosebumps-causing pictures! What a remarkable artist!

Can hardly believe she is not known better. I thought I knew much. Now ~ I realize how little do I know.

Hello from Canada!

[pacoworld]

Que Viva España

y que viva México.......

[Stefanialai]

meravigliosa artista !!!!!!!!!

[kaeliv10]

Gracias a este video conocí a Remedios Varo! su obra tiene un toque místico magico que encanta...  amazing pictures!

[2255zara]

Great video...thanks ! :)

[LaurentziuRo]

Gorgeous paintings and music

Impressive video