Tag: Remedios Varo
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The Logic of the Impossible: Remedios Varo at Louisiana
At Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the first major European retrospective of Remedios Varo reveals an artist whose remarkable paintings bring together science, alchemy, psychology and an imagination entirely her own. The paintings of Remedios Varo operate according to peculiar but convincing rules. Figures travel through forests in elaborate mechanical vehicles, experiment with…
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Remedios Varo: The Architecture of the Imagination
Alchemy, astronomy, mathematics, mysticism and the architecture of the Renaissance converge in the extraordinary paintings of Remedios Varo. One of Surrealism’s most intellectually ambitious artists, she created an entire visual universe in which imagination became a method of investigating reality. In Remedios Varo’s Creation of the Birds (1957), a curious creature with the face of…
