![]() ![]() Her father also took her to museums-at the Prado she fell in love with the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Goya and El Greco. She also learned about perspective, a device she used often in her work. Her father encouraged her artistic inclinations by teaching her how to make mechanical drawings. When she was a young child, the family traveled for her father’s work, after several years they settled in Madrid. Remedios Varo (1908-1963) was born Maria de los Remedios Varo y Uranga in Anglés, a town north of Barcelona. It is instructive to trace how Varo’s interests, talents and personal history, combined with her place in world events, lead to a merging of subject matter and style that was so uniquely her own. ![]() As a girl she dreamed of travel, but after world events forced her twice into relocation and exile she came detest travel and chose instead to journey inward, exploring her creativity and spirituality through her painting. Varo was a relentlessly inquisitive, intelligent woman of great wit, whose slight build and striking features are often echoed in the humans and hybrid creatures who inhabit her paintings. Remedios Varo’s small, complex paintings portray a world in which alchemy, magic, mysticism and science co-exist. Remedios Varo, Creation of the Birds, 1957 ![]()
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