Remedios Varo: most Beautiful Art


	Remedios Varo: most Beautiful Art
abailart
1-24-2008 4:08 AM
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1-24-2008 8:26 AM
Fast T friend
Remedios Varo is a favorite of mine
1-24-2008 10:36 AM
mickfinn
They remind me of childrens' illustrated books read when I was a bit younger. Evocative of Harry Potter films. Don't know why, but my favourite is the cycling nuns
1-24-2008 11:05 AM
masbury
Wow.
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She was born in <A title="Anglés Cataluña" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angl%C3%A9s_Catalu%C3%B1a&action=edit">Anglés Cataluña</A>, <A title="Spain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain">Spain</A> in <A title="1908" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908">1908</A> and died from a heart-attack in <A title="Mexico City" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City">Mexico City</A> in <A title="1963" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963">1963</A>. During the <A title="Spanish Civil War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War">Spanish Civil War</A> she fled to <A title="Paris" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris">Paris</A> where she was largely influenced by the surrealist movement. She met in Barcelona the french surrealist poet <A title="Benjamin Péret" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_P%C3%A9ret">Benjamin Péret</A> and became his wife. She was forced into exile from Paris during the <A title="Nazism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism">Nazi</A> occupation of <A title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</A> and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Remedios_Varo&oldid=186469697">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. 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