Remedios Varo
PainterKnown for:
magical Surrealist painting of female figures
Education:
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid (graduated 1930)
Remedios Varo studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid before joining the Surrealist circle in Paris, where she worked with Breton and Péret. She fled to Mexico in 1941 as a wartime refugee and spent the rest of her career in Mexico City, developing a highly personal Surrealism of magical female figures engaged in alchemical and astronomical pursuits. Her work was largely unknown outside Mexico at her death in 1963 and has since become among the most popular in Mexican museums.
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Painted in short layered strokes on gessoed masonite panels, more like tempera than typical oil technique; used single-hair brushes for fine details
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Oil paint — pigment suspended in a drying oil, typically linseed — has been the dominant painting medium since the fifteenth century. It dries slowly, allowing extended blending, and produces a rich, luminous surface. Available from dozens of manufacturers at student through professional grades.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
