The name Remedios means "remedy"which was given to her because she was the medicine her mother needed to heal from the loss of an older daughter.ĭon Rodrigo Varo was a hydraulic engineer whose study of waterways took the family on many travels throughout Spain and North Africa.
She is described as being good-hearted and devout catholic. Her mother was of Basque origin from the northern coast of Spain. He was a man who had a great sense of humor and imagination. Her father, Don Rodrigo Varo y Zejalbo, was from the southern region of Spain, Andalusia, home of flamenco and Gypsies. Remedios Varo was born in 1908 in Angles, Spain. Varo's body of work can be described as a unique universe, that involves science, discovery and the human condition. A retrospective of her work opens at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., in February 2000.Mystical and intriguing are words that come to mind when you first discover the paintings of surrealist painter Remedios Varo (1908-1963). An instant celebrity in Mexico - where her retrospectives have drawn record crowds - Varo has recently found enthusiastic audiences in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The book is further enlivened by her own voice, conveyed in hilarious letters and surreal stories, published here for the first time. Fifty color reproductions capture the wit and beauty of her major paintings numerous black-and-white illustrations document other works and portray the compelling artist with her circle of lifelong friends and admirers.
Painted with a jewel-like palette and old-master precision, Varo's intimate tableaux, rich with details of women's experience, tell fantasy tales of alchemy, science, mysticism, and magic. Finding welcome refuge in Mexico City, where she remained until her death, Varo produced the extraordinary paintings for which she gained renown. Forced to flee again by the Nazis, she and Peret faced a year of mounting danger in Marseilles before securing passage to Mexico.
After fleeing the Spanish Civil War with the poet Benjamin Peret, later her husband, she entered the inner circle of the Surrealists in Paris. Raised in a strict Spanish family and rigorously trained in academic art, Varo first found escape in Barcelona's bohemian avant-garde.
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