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[[Image:Useless Science.jpg|right|thumb|''Useless Science or the Alchemist'', 1955]]
'''Remedios Varo Uranga''' (December 16 [[1908]] - [[October 8]] [[1963]]) was a Spanish-Mexican [[surrealist]] [[Painting|painter]]. She was born in [[Anglès, Girona]], [[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 [[Nazism|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. She had an early abortion due to her economic realities of her life. Due to the abortion, she could not become pregnant again.

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.
== Major influences ==
=== Artistic influences ===
The allegorical nature of much of Varo's work especially recalls the paintings of [[Hieronymus Bosch]], and some critics, such as Dean Swinford, have described her art as "postmodern allegory," much in the tradition of [[Irrealism (the arts)|Irrealism]].

Varo was also influenced by styles as diverse as those of [[Francisco Goya]], [[El Greco]], [[Picasso]], and [[Braque]]. While [[André Breton]] was a formative influence in her understanding of [[Surrealism]], some of her paintings bear an uncanny resemblance to the Surrealist creations of the modern Greek-born Italian painter [[Giorgio de Chirico]].

In Mexico, she was influenced by [[pre-Columbian art]].

Varo's painting ''The Lovers'' served as inspiration for some of the images used by [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] in the music video for her 1995 single "[[Bedtime Story]]".

=== Philosophical influences ===
Varo was influenced by a wide range of mystic and hermetic traditions, both Western and non-Western. She turned with equal interest to the ideas of [[C. G. Jung]] as to the theories of [[G. I. Gurdjieff]], [[P. D. Ouspensky]], [[Helena Blavatsky]], [[Meister Eckhart]], and the [[Sufis]], and was as fascinated with the legend of the [[Holy Grail]] as with [[sacred geometry]], [[alchemy]] and the ''[[I-Ching]]''. She saw in each of these an avenue to self-knowledge and the transformation of consciousness.

<gallery>
Image:Trasmundo.jpg|''Trasmundo'', 1955.
Image:Reflejo_Lunar.jpg|''Reflejo Lunar'', 1957.
Image:Still_Life_Reviving.jpg|''Still Life Reviving'', 1963.
</gallery>

== Selected list of works ==
*1925 ''El Tejido de los Sueños''
*1942 ''Gruta Magica''
*1947 ''Paludismo (Libélula)''
*1947 ''El Hombre de la Guadaña (Muerte en el Mercado)''
[[Image:SourceoftheOrinocoRiver.jpg|right|thumb|''Exploration of the Source of the Orinoco River'', 1959.]]
*1947 ''La Batalla''
*1947 ''Wahgwah''
*1947 ''Amibiasis o los Vegetales''
*1955 ''[http://www.spamula.net/blog/i37/varo06.jpg Useless Science or the Alchemist]''
*1955 ''[http://www.spamula.net/blog/i37/varo07.jpg Ermitaño meditando]''
*1955 ''[http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/images/varo/relojero.jpg La Revelacion o el Relojero]''
*1955 ''Trasmundo''
*1955 ''El Flautista''
*1956 ''El Paraíso de los Gatos''
*1956 ''To the Happiness of Women''
*1957 ''Creation of the Birds''
*1957 ''Women’s Tailor''
*1957 ''Caminos Tortuosos''
*1957 ''[http://www.fantasyarts.net/Varo/remedios_Varo%20reflejo_lunar.jpg Reflejo Lunar]''
*1957 ''El Gato Helecho''
*1958 ''Celestial Pabulum''
*1959 ''[http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/images/varo/expl.jpg Exploration of the Source of the Orinoco River]''
*1959 ''Catedral Vegetal''
*1959 ''Encounter''
*1960 ''Hacia la torre''
*1960 ''[http://www.spamula.net/blog/i37/varo10.jpg Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst]''
*1960 ''Visit to the Plastic Surgeon’s''
*1961 ''Vampiro''
*1961 ''[http://giantcamera.net/archives/varo2.jpg Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle]''
*1962 ''[http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/images/varo/veg.jpg Vampiros Vegetarianos]''
*1962 ''Fenomeno''
*1962 ''Spiral Transit''
*1963 ''[http://www.spamula.net/blog/i37/varo13.jpg Naturaleza Muerta Resucitando]''

== See also ==
* [[Salvador Dalí]]
* [[El Greco]]
* [[Max Ernst]]
* [[Leonora Carrington]]
* [[Benjamin Péret]]

== Sources ==
*Dean Swinford, [http://home.sprynet.com/~awhit/review1a.htm Defining irrealism: scientific development and allegorical possibility.]
*Janet A. Kaplan, ''[http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?isbn=0789206277 Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo]'' (New York: Abbeville, 1988), p. 164.
*Polyxeni Potter, [http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no11/about_cover.htm Scientific Discovery and Women's Health.]

== External links ==
*[http://www.varoregistry.com/varo.html Biography]
*[http://www.hungryflower.com/leorem/rembib.html Remedios Varo Bibliography]
*[http://www.nd.edu/~sweber/art/varo/ Remedios Varo: Major Works]
*[http://www.hungryflower.com/leorem/varo.html Remedios Varo—A Compendium of Online Galleries, Biographies, Articles, and Miscellany]
*[http://www.cornermag.org/corner02/page04a.htm Chronology of Remedios Varo]
*[http://www.iupui.edu/~lmena1/varo.html Comprehensive Gallery of paintings by Remedios Varo (Language: Spanish)]
*[http://www.benjamin-peret.org/benjamin-peret/archives/remedios-varo-1908-1963.html Association des amis de Benjamin Péret (Language: French)]

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