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By Aquarium - Remedios Varo
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Description
A surrealist composition by Remedios Varo featuring two enigmatic figures in a dense forest, rendered with precise, luminous detail.
Remedios Varo, a Spanish-born artist who spent much of her career in Mexico, created By Aquarium in 1957. This work displays her characteristic approach to narrative painting, where figures appear caught in moments of quiet, alchemical transformation. The composition features two figures: a seated person in a dark suit and a taller, ethereal being whose lower half transitions into a wheel. The taller figure wears a cloak that envelops both, suggesting a shared journey or a protective bond. The background consists of a dense, vertical forest rendered in shades of olive and deep green, which creates a sense of enclosure. Varo often employed a technique involving fine, precise brushwork to achieve a luminous quality. The figures possess elongated features and large, expressive eyes, which are hallmarks of her style. The presence of a large key held by the taller figure introduces an element of mystery, a common motif in her work that hints at hidden knowledge or the unlocking of subconscious states. The cloud-like form surrounding the head of the taller figure suggests a dissolution of the physical into the atmospheric, a theme that recurs throughout her oeuvre. By Aquarium reflects the artist's interest in esoteric traditions, science, and the occult. Her work avoids the chaotic impulses of some European surrealists, opting instead for a controlled, almost architectural precision. The colour palette is dominated by earthy tones, with the orange of the cloak providing a sharp contrast to the surrounding forest. This piece invites the viewer to consider the relationship between the physical world and the internal life of the mind, presented through a lens of quiet, deliberate fantasy.
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By Aquarium - Remedios Varo
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Fine Art Framed / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / Black frame
Artist Biography
Remedios Varo
Varo was named after the Virgin of Remedies, as a remedy for an older sister who had died. Her full name was Maria de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga. Her father was an engineer who taught her to draw using his technical drafting tools. Her mother enrolled her in Catholic school in Madrid, which she spent most of her time rebelling against. Both influences appear in the paintings: precision engineering inhabited by mystics.
She graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1930, one of the few women in her class. In Barcelona she fell in with the Surrealists and, through them, with the poet Benjamin Peret, who became her partner. When Paris fell, she was jailed on suspicion of espionage. After her release she and Peret boarded one of the last ships allowed to leave France, arriving in Mexico in 1941.
In Mexico City she became inseparable from the English Surrealist Leonora Carrington. Together with the photographer Kati Horna, the three were called the Three Witches. They attended meetings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky followers, studied alchemy and Jungian dream theory, and put ink in tapioca pearls to serve as caviar at dinner parties for Octavio Paz.
She did not paint prolifically until the last thirteen years of her life, once she was financially stable and free of wartime displacement. The paintings from this period are meticulous: tiny figures in architectural spaces that obey their own physics, conducting experiments with starlight or weaving the fabric of the universe from threads pulled out of the air.
Her posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City in 1971 drew more visitors than shows by Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros. She had died of a heart attack in 1963, at fifty-four, at the peak of her working life.
She graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1930, one of the few women in her class. In Barcelona she fell in with the Surrealists and, through them, with the poet Benjamin Peret, who became her partner. When Paris fell, she was jailed on suspicion of espionage. After her release she and Peret boarded one of the last ships allowed to leave France, arriving in Mexico in 1941.
In Mexico City she became inseparable from the English Surrealist Leonora Carrington. Together with the photographer Kati Horna, the three were called the Three Witches. They attended meetings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky followers, studied alchemy and Jungian dream theory, and put ink in tapioca pearls to serve as caviar at dinner parties for Octavio Paz.
She did not paint prolifically until the last thirteen years of her life, once she was financially stable and free of wartime displacement. The paintings from this period are meticulous: tiny figures in architectural spaces that obey their own physics, conducting experiments with starlight or weaving the fabric of the universe from threads pulled out of the air.
Her posthumous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City in 1971 drew more visitors than shows by Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros. She had died of a heart attack in 1963, at fifty-four, at the peak of her working life.
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