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Remedios Varo
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.
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culture · Spanish Catalan artist (1908–1963) · painter · sculptor · draftsperson · artist · also Remedios Varo, Remedios Lizarraga Varo, Remedios Varo Uranga, Varo
Born 16 December 1908 · Died 8 October 1963 · Q235275
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You're Orthodox? No. Conservative? Young people never are. My parents were Orthodox. They believe, I believe, that whatever your father is, as long as your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish too because we all come from our mother's womb. A long unbroken chain of Jewish mothers going all the way back to Eve.
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“You're Orthodox? No. Conservative? Young people never are. My parents were Orthodox. They believe, I believe, that whatever your father is, as long as your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish too because we all come from our mother's womb. A long unbroken chain of Jewish mothers going all the way back to Eve.”
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“You know how a boy is. There comes a time for departure, a point where he sees confirmed the suspicion he’d had for some time that his father is not a god, not even a oracle. He sees that he no longer has any right to any such father. So Vheissu becomes a bedtime story or fairly tale after all, and the boy a superior version of his merely human father.”
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“Dream tonight of peacock tails, / Diamond fields and spouter whales. / Ills are many, blessings few, / But dreams tonight will shelter you.”
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“History, the proverb says, is made at night. The European civil servant normally sleeps at night. What waits in his IN basket to confront him at nine in the morning is history.”
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“Politics is a kind of engineering isn't it. With people as your raw material.”
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“We simply grow up. In Florence, at age fifty-four, I was a brash youth. Had I known the Duse was there her poet chap might have found dangerous competition, ha-ha. The only trouble is that now, nearing eighty, I keep discovering that damned war has made the world older than I. The world frowns now on youth in a vacuum, it insists youth be turned-to, utilized, exploited. No time for pranks. No more Vheissus.”
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“I was dreaming … about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.”
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Quien: 'Remedios Varo: Habitantes de lo insólito', un viaje al universo de una de las grandes surrealistas en México
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2024· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Remedios Varo Thrives at the Edges of Perception
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2023· 6 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘Remedios Varo: Science Fictions’ Review: Intimately Surreal
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Hyperallergic: Remedios Varo’s Strange and Mysterious Universes
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MILENIO: Remedios Varo y sus hilos invisibles
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Observer: Charting Remedios Varo’s Mystical Voyage into the Surreal and Sacred
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Yahoo: Why Remedios Varo, one of the ‘three witches’ of surrealism, continues to fascinate
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The Art Institute of Chicago held an exhibit of her work the first to be held of her work in the last 20 years in the U
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2014· 1 entry
Enlace: A singular vision: art and intellect of Remedios Varo
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2000· 1 entry
At the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC
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1971· 1 entry
Which attracted the then-highest attendance in the museum's history, and again in 1983 and 1994
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1965· 1 entry
Her 1959 faux-anthropological work On Homo rodans (an accompanying text for her sculpture Homo rodans) was printed as a facsimile, and reprinted in 1970
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1964· 1 entry
The National Museum of Modern Art in the Palacio de Bellas Artes held a tribute exhibition of Varo's work, with record attendance
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1963· 2 entries
Died 1963-10-08.
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Connected her "forever to the ranks of international surrealism"
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1952· 1 entry
Varo married Austrian refugee Walter Gruen, and ended her career in commercial graphic design in favor of her personal art
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1949· 1 entry
After struggling to obtain funds for travel back
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1947· 1 entry
Péret wanted to return to France, while Varo wished to stay in Mexico, which by then she viewed as her home
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1940· 1 entry
And 1941, and the Rescue Committee recognized Péret and Varo's immediate need to escape the Vichy authorities
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1939· 1 entry
The Nationalists claimed victory in Spain and Francisco Franco disallowed anyone associated with the Republicans from entering the country
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1938· 1 entry
And 1939, Varo joined her closest companions Frances, Roberto Matta, and Gordon Onslow Ford in exploring the fourth dimension, basing much of their studies on Ouspensky's book Tertium Organum
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1937· 1 entry
Remedios moved to Paris with French poet Benjamin Péret
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1929· 1 entry
Studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (1924–1929).
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1924· 1 entry
Varo enrolled at the prestigious Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, a school known for rigid and exacting training
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-12-16.
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