Remedios Varo - Mexican artist

Remedios Varo was born in December 16, 1908 - October 8, 1963 was a surrealist painter. She was born in Anglés Cataluña, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. During the Spanish Civil War she flees to Paris where she was mainly prejudiced by the surrealist movement. She met in Barcelona the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret and became his wife. She was compulsory into banish from Paris during the Nazi profession of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941. She at first considered Mexico a temporary haven, but would remain in Latin America for the rest of her life.

In Mexico she met inhabitant artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. However, her strongest ties would be to other exiles and expatriates, and particularly her extraordinary friendship with the English painter Leonora Carrington. Her last major relationship would be with Walter Gruen, an Austrian who had endured concentration camps before escaping Europe. Gruen believed severely in Varo, and gave her the support that allowed her to fully concentrate on her painting.

After 1949 Varo developed into her mature and extraordinary style, which remains beautifully enigmatic and instantly recognizable. She often worked in oil on Masonite panels she ready herself. Although her colors have the blend resonance of the oil medium, her brushwork often concerned many fine strokes of paint laid closely together - a technique more reminiscent of egg tempera. She died at the height of her career.
Her work continues to achieve successful retrospectives at major sites in Mexico and the United States.