My all time FAVORITE artist!

i love her! Discovered her work in a feminism and psychology journal of some kind and was hooked.
While i like many other female surrealist artists, Varo's work has the right touch of cosmic whimsy and deep spirit i love.

ahhHh., her work is so amazing!
i love to get lost in the catalog i have, and to share it with other's is such a treat, to see & hear of what they see & feel...

also, the book, unexpected jouneys is simply fantastic.
janet kaplan, who wrote the book titled it so because of the unexpected journeys she herself took while researching remedios' life.

oh!! Remedio Varo is my absolute favorite artist and i cant pick favorite anythings, lol It was her work that made me realize that i needed to seek out work by female artists.

Women's depictions of women FIT in a way that men's depictions cant. It's funny how i never realized that i didnt know of many female artists.

Yes, yes . . . Very soon after I first found out about her work, years ago, she supplanted Yves Tanguy as my favorite painter. I find it very, very sad that such a great talent remains so little known.

Somebody around here mentioned having seen her work at the Atheneum's show (in Hartford, CT) a year or so ago, and being amazed by her work. This sounded very ironic to me, considering they displayed only ONE work of hers (if I remember correctly), and moreover it was an inferior painting from an earlier period. An artist as great as she was deserves far more attention. Unfortunately, the sexist bias that women suffered in the art world, particularly within Breton's circle, still persists. Kay Sage, overshadowed (to forgive the pun) by her husband Tanguy, though her work was related to his (I haven't been able to find a book on her, so I haven't yet come to a conclusion on who influenced whom, and to what extent - it's so easy to put the lesser-known on the derivative end). Sage was also underrepresented at the show, but I don't remember if Leonora Carrington, or even the amazing Dorothea Tanning (still alive) were represented at all.

What struck me was not simply the painstakingly technical mastery she quickly developed over the medium after Benjamin Peret had appointed himself her patron and freed her from monetary obligations (do I have that right, or was it her former husband?), but also the intelligence and, more than anything else, her brilliant imagination. During her late period, her paintings possess great, great depth. Not one of these qualities is sufficiently evident in the tiny painting displayed at the show in Hartford.

Really, she deserves her own show.

This remarkable woman died of a heart attack at the age of 54. Why her, and not that wildly overrated bastard Picasso, for example? Well, everyone knows Nature's not fair. Plus, I suppose her smoking habit didn't help.

Like her close friend Leonora Carrington (with whom she shared an interest in magical lore), Varo also wrote a little, so I'm still waiting for somebody to publish her writing, because I'm curious, curious. I suspect it's probably not exceptional or expansive writing and this is why we know nothing about it. Nevertheless . . . curiosity.

And to whoever mentioned it: Yes, I agree that "Unexpected Journeys" is an excellent, excellent book. I don't know if it's still in print, but I hope it is. My copy is quite valuable to me, and happily I didn't have to pay a pound of flesh for it.