Her father, a hydraulics engineer, encouraged her interest in science and taught her how to draft images, a skill she used throughout her artistic career. The result was a personal approach to surrealism, the unified vision of a fantastic world inhabited by creatures of the imagination, moving freely in and out of consciousness, proposing new solutions, offering alternative interpretations.Ī native of Angles, Spain, Remedios Varo grew up in a family that nurtured academic and artistic aspirations. To this expansive world, Varo brought knowledge of engineering construction, painstaking attention to detail, a penchant for philosophical discourse, and fascination with alchemy and the occult ( 3). Bolstered by intuition and intellectual curiosity, the movement accessed the world of dreams, memory, and the psyche ( 2). Surrealism, which sought to express "the actual functioning of thought," was Varo's vehicle for understanding the universe, a vehicle that, like the fanciful locomotives in many of her paintings, went beyond established scientific principles. "Surrealism claims totally the work of the enchantress too soon gone," said André Breton, when he heard that Remedios Varo had died, in 1963 ( 1). Private collection, courtesy of Walter Gruen La Llamada (The Call) (1961) Oil on Masonite (98.5 cm x 68 cm).
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