However, she was very far from sharing those paths that tended towards sub-consciousness because she pursued a state of supra-consciousness.” See Juliana González, “Transmundo de Remedios Varo,” in Remedios Varo, ed. Octavio Paz and Roger Caillois (Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1966), 166. All translations from this volume are by the author.

Mexico provided Varo with an important remove from the dictates of Paris-based Surrealism. Yet, paradoxically, it is Mexico—which, as Péret and Andre Breton had noted, was Surrealistic in its matter-of-fact integration of magic and the grotesque into daily life—that crucially overshadows Kaplan’s project; it becomes impossible to avoid comparing …

Like Magritte, Dali, and Ernst, Varo retained a connection to many of the painstaking procedures of traditional academic painting. In her smallish, hyperrefined works, the stage is carefully and logically set, the visual evidence in line with that of the so-called rational world, but this order is then subjected to a whimsical, imaginative ...

Gertrude Abercrombie, Tree, Table, and Cat, 1937, oil on canvas, 40 × 30″. Abercrombie’s milieu was distinctly queer, in the sense that gender and sexuality were accepted as open and fluid among its participants, including the artists Karl Priebe (her closest friend), Marshall Glasier, Dudley Huppler, John Wilde, Carl Van Vechten, and ...

Oct 19, 2018 · The paintings of Remedios Varo are fraught with supernatural hassles. Men become cats and cats become leaves. Chairs grow pincers, mechanical imps on wheels run the streets, and overflowing goblets cause flash floods. Still, the androgynous, almond-eyed inhabitants of Varo’s sci-fi world seem used to these kinds of inconveniences.

Though many of the women were born in Mexico—painters Frida Kahlo and Maria Izquierdo and photographer Lola Alvarez Bravo among them—others, such as Remedios Varo from Spain and Leonora Carrington from England, Modotti from Italy, and the Russian-born Olga Costa—came to Mexico from elsewhere.

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When the woman is not alone, she is depicted communing or having sex with animals, including lobsters, monkeys, and a variety of birds. (Animals are often pictured as comrades and lovers in the paintings of Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Remedios Varo.

Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington (with their imitator Alfonso Duran) continue to perpetuate the tenets of the Surrealist Movement which came here direct from Paris during the late war; with fantastic scenes based on Hieronymus Bosch in the case of Carrington and delicate, esoteric constructions with strong metaphysical overtones on the part ...

This cat walked alone. Fonda’s acting is described as “inward,” yet in the interviews threading through HFFP, he denies all introspection. Conveying depth, Fonda insists on emptiness: “I don’t feel I have good answers to anything.” Emotionally distant even to himself, he laconically proposes acting as an escape from that self.