Remedios Varo

[GoddessOfGuinness]

More:
http://www.remediosvaro.biz/
http://www.angelfire.com/hiphop/diablo4u/remedios.html

Sometimes, while surfing the net, one stumbles across extraordinary things!

[jukes]

1. striking

& kind of spooky.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Here's one you'll like.....

She reminds me of Bosch and Escher.

[jukes]

7. lovely!

tx++!

i put it on my active desktop!

i felt some escher in it, likewise. can't recall bosch, i'll search in a bit.

[jukes]

10. ah, bosch

horrific! glad i only have to live w/my demons, not his. sorta ketaminesque...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. I love her stuff...love this one

(and thanks for your note today...I'll find those discs and give them a listen)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. I'm going to have to see the real thing

Any idea where her paintings are?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. no idea at all...

[Bridget Burke]

9. I'd start in Mexico City.

As a refugee from the Spanish Civil War (& then from the Nazis), she moved to Mexico, where she spent the rest of her life. A preliminary search indicates that Mexican museums feature her work, but a required registration process defeated my Cyber-Spanglish.

While there, look for works by Leonora Carrington, another woman with a Surreal past who lived in Mexico. They were friends who shared artistic & mystical interests. (Actually, I believe Carrington is still living there; Remedios Varo died at 55.)



(And look up Frida while you're at it!)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Thanks for the info!

It's too bad our National Museum of Women in the Arts doesn't have any of her work to exhibit. They have one Kahlo.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. kick

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[jukes]

8. another kick

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[tigereye]

11. nice!

never heard of her. Beautiful. Is she of the same period as Frida Kahlo?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Just about...

1908-1963. Kahlo was born in 1907 and died in 1954.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. just once more...

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