Remedios Varo

Painting, Visual Artist

1908 – 1963

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Who was Remedios Varo?

Remedios Varo Uranga was a Spanish-Mexican, para-surrealist painter and anarchist. She was born María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga in Anglès, a small town in the province of Girona, Spain in 1908. Her birth helped her mother get over the death of another daughter, which is the reason behind the name. In 1924 she studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement. She met her second husband, the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, in Barcelona. There she was a member of the art group Logicophobiste. They were introduced through a mutual friendship with the Surrealist artist Oscar Domínguez.

Due to her Republican ties, her 1937 move to Paris with Péret ensured that she would never be able to return to Franco's Spain. She was forced into exile from Paris during the German occupation of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941. She initially considered Mexico a temporary haven, but would remain in Mexico for the rest of her life.

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Born
Dec 16, 1908
Anglès, Girona
Also known as
  • María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga
Nationality
  • Spain
Education
  • Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Lived in
  • Anglès, Girona
Died
Oct 8, 1963
Mexico City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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