#RemediosVaro is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 6 people shared 71 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is up 6% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 31 with 4 posts.

Posts with #RemediosVaro

José Luis

@nailcliper.bsky.social

20 days ago

Taxi acuático 1962 🎨 #RemediosVaro #Surrealismo #Arte #Pintura

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Phillipe al Sur del Mundo

@phillipealsur.bsky.social

9 months ago

Un 16 de diciembre de 1908 nace en Anglés, provincia de Gerona, María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga, #RemediosVaro ❤️, pintora surrealista, escritora y artista gráfica española a la que en este perfil le tenemos mucho cariño y respeto 🖌️🎨🖼️✨💜

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Agustina Pérez

@maguspe.bsky.social

11 months ago

#RemediosVaro. Creadora internacional,muy conocida en México y en EE UU. Nacida en Cataluña en 1913, perteneció al grupo surrealista catalán Logicofobista. En nuestro país es casi una desconocida. Murió joven, en el exilio, cuando su talento estaba en plena erupción. #GrandesMujeresOlvidadas

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@mfreud27.bsky.social

7 months ago

#Art: Alegoría del invierno (1948) #Artist: #RemediosVaro (b. 1908/d. 1963; #🇪🇸 #🇲🇽) #ArtMovement: #Surrealism Medium: Gouache on paper 44 x 44 cm (17.3 x 17.3 in) #DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy #ArtPost #FineArt ##ArtHerstory #WomensArt 136

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Art Herstory

@artherstory.bsky.social

5 months ago

Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst (Could Be Juliana), 1960, by #RemediosVaro (Spanish-born Mexican, 1908-1963). Held by Museo de Arte Moderno, which hosts the exhibition “Remedios Varo: Habitantes de lo insólito” through July 5, mam.inba.gob.mx/exposicio…. #womenartists #artherstory #CincodeMayo

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Exploración de las fuentes del río Orinoco (Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River) by Remedios Varo (Spanish Mexican) - Oil on canvas / 1959 - Art Institute of Chicago (Illinois) #WomenInArt #art #surrealism #artText #RemediosVaro #artic #ArtInstituteofChicago #WomensArt #WomenArtists

In 1959, when “Exploración de las fuentes del río Orinoco” was painted, Spanish-Mexican artist Remedios Varo was at the height of her artistic career and in the midst of a prodigious output of works that dealt with the metaphorical theme of esoteric searching. Slender and elegant women, looking much like the artist, populate these canvases, often astride fantastical vehicles of transit. The internal world of Remedios Varo is fraught with conflict over separation (e.g., her mother or homeland, Spain), which in her particular symbolism of locomotion, means moving, changing, leaving, and breaking away.

Here a young light-skinned woman conservatively dressed in a proper British trench coat and bowler hat (a reference to British painter Leonora Carrington?) maneuvers in a boat that looks like a garment--replete with side pocket and buttons! Lost in concentration, she navigates by means of a complicated and amusing system of cords, propelled at top by wings reminiscent of the god Mercury. The "origin" of the river appears to be a goblet in a shrine-like hollowed out tree from which water flows, akin to the goblet of the Holy Grail or a bubbling alchemical beaker.

Although interested in the mystical ideas of Russian-Armenian George Gurdjieff, Varo was also "attracted to the logic and order of scientific investigation." In fact, a decade earlier Varo had made a journey on the Orinoco River in Venezuela with her then companion/lover Jean Nicolle, who was working with a team of scientists organized by the French Institute in Mexico to study the agricultural potential of the region. It is this dichotomy that provides humor to not only this work but to many of her paintings--for her serious female explorers are on scientific safari to nothing less than the realm of dream.

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

La llamada (The Call) by Remedios Varo (Spanish) - Oil on masonite / 1961 - National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #art #WomanArtist #ArtText #FemaleArtist #WomenArtists #WomensArt #RemediosVaro #Varo #NMWA #surrealism #surrealist #artwork #NationalMuseumofWomenintheArts

Like many figures in Spanish artist Remedios Varo’s paintings, the subject of "The Call" projects a sense of solemn preoccupation, as though in the midst of a momentous adventure. Wearing flowing robes and carrying alchemical tools, including a mortar and pestle at her collar, she traverses a sort of courtyard. Her hair forms a brilliant swirl of light, which seems to bring her energy from a celestial source.

This work reflects Varo’s characteristic color palette: the central figure, illuminated in fiery orange-gold tones, walks through shadowy, more muted surroundings. Precise lines reveal unexpected details, such as walls that appear to entomb figures in tree bark.

Varo’s own features, particularly her large eyes and long, straight nose, often appear in the faces of her protagonists, emphasizing the importance she placed on her perspective as a woman. The figures are frequently androgynous or not-quite-human alter-egos, with witty and delicate features of fauna or otherworldly creatures.

"The Call" reflects her surrealist influences and interest in alchemy as well as her talent for evoking ambiguous narratives through art. Varo created this work near the end of her life, while living in Mexico and growing in artistic reputation.

She moved to Paris in 1937, later finding that she could not return to Spain following the Spanish Civil War. As World War II threatened Paris, Spanish refugees came under threat. Varo was arrested and held in early 1940. After her release, she fled Paris in the face of the Nazi invasion, and by late 1941 had secured passage to Mexico.

There, Varo remained friends with fellow refugees from her European surrealist circle, including artist Leonora Carrington, who became her closest friend and collaborator. In the late 1940s, as she supported herself through commercial illustration, Varo began to develop her mature personal style which we see here in this painting completed less than two years before she passed away in 1963.

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Remedios Varo Bot

@remedios-varo-bot.bsky.social

about 21 hours ago

Wandering Astro / Astro Errante (1961) www.remediosvaro.art/pain… Feel free help improve this bot by suggesting better alt text in the comments, thanks. #SurrealistArt #Surrealism #Surrealismo #RemediosVaro