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ART & DESIGN
Remedios Varo
A WOMAN IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM
R emedios Varo was a well- her thoughts and their satellites which are
travelled woman. She travelled none other than her dreams, then merging it
in both external and internal all in surprising ways with our own psyches.
worlds in search of what she Beyond the influence of the trends of the
might describe as the severe responsibility historic period in which she lived; here
of being free. She ran away from what she it is important to mention her surrealist
considered imposed hierarchies that were beginnings, Varo created an aesthetic
asphyxiating societal standards, as well as the discourse that was nurtured by a variety of
authoritarian political powers of the Europe sources and interwoven in unusual ways.
of her time, while discovering her full artistic Like mathematical formulas, her paintings
authority in a turbulent world wearied by war. proposed descriptive models regarding the
nature of artistic creation: an interpretation of
She fled to Mexico which offered her art as a phenomenon inherent to life that calls
protection and she adapted to her new country into question what we call reality. She believed
with savvy using her renowned sensitivity and the power of art at the periphery of logic could
intelligence. The complex, powerful allegorical give possible answers to the riddles we face
dimensions of Mexican culture were a natural throughout our lives.
fit for the way she viewed the world. Indeed,
the exceptional aesthetic strategy that Varo
uses in her paintings is meant to sharpen our
perception of the world around us in every
way. It is about the machinery that uncovers
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