Remedios varo paintings collage

“The dream world and the real world are the same,” declared Spanish-born artist María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga, who alchemically combined traditional techniques, Surrealist methods, and mystical philosophic inquiry into visionary dreamscapes.

Raised in Madrid, Varo learned observational drawing from her father and then trained as a painter.

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Moving to Barcelona and Paris in the s offered liberation from academic painting and family expectations, exposing Varo to modernist thinkers and a close association with Surrealist artists. Her intimacy with the group is evident in an untitled collage created with Esteban Francés, Oscar Domínguez, and Marcel Jean using the technique known as cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse).

Varo and her cohort took turns adding an element to a piece of paper and folding over it, then unfolding the sheet to reveal the collective result.

In Varo emigrated to Mexico, fleeing Fascism in France and Spain. There she built a n