December 2016 Theme Day - Transitions

Remedios Varo Exhibition (Spanish-Mexican Surrealist Painter)

“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”

― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

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Remedios Varo Exhibition

The Pied Piper

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Vagabond

This lady leaves the psychoanalyst throwing to a well the head of his father (as is right to do when leaving the psychoanalyst). In the basket carries other psychological waste: a watch, symbol of fear of being late, and so on. The doctor is called MD FJA (Freud, Jung, Adler). Remedios Varo

“I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.”
― Remedios Varo

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Leonora Carrington IV

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Horno de Simon Magus / Simon Magus Oven. Bronze 2007. From her exhibition on Paseo de la Reforma Ave.

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Leonora Carrington III

"Entonces vimos a la hija del Minotauro" / "And Then, We Saw The Daughter of The Minotaur" Oleo / Oil 1953 from her exhibition on Paseo de la Reforma Ave. (Main Street)
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (Greek: Μῑνώταυρος, Mīnṓtauros) was a creature that was part man and part bull. It dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction built for King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus who were ordered to build it to hold the Minotaur. The historical site of Knossos is usually identified as the site of the labyrinth. The Minotaur was eventually killed by Theseus.
"Minotaur" is Greek for "Bull of Minos." The bull was known in Crete as Asterion, a name shared with Minos's foster father.

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Leonora Carrington II

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La Madre de los Lobos / The Mother of The Wolves. Bronze 2007, from her exhibition on Paseo de la Reforma Ave.

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Leonora Carrington I

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From her exhibition on Paseo de la Reforma Ave:
Mariposa Mantarraya / Butterfly Manta ray. Bronze 2007 by Leonora Carrington. One of Britain's finest - and neglected – surrealists.
Her importance, lies partly in that she - along with artists such as Leonor Fini and Remedios Varo - opened up a new, and more female, strand of surrealism: in Mexico, Leonora and Varo dabbled in alchemy and the occult, and the work of both was rooted for a time in the magical and domestic elements of women's lives. "One of the extraordinary aspects of Leonora's work is how she draws on so many different inspirations, from the Celtic legends she learned from her nanny, through the constraints of her upper-class upbringing, to the surrealism of Paris in the 1930s - and then to the magic of Mexico," "Her work is evocative of so many things, and it's enormously complex: she hasn't had a massive output because her technique is so meticulous and the work so detailed. She certainly wasn't a Picasso who could churn out several pictures a day; her work would take many months, even years."

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Leonora Carrington in Mexico City IV

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El Mundo Magico de los Mayas / The Magic World of The Mayas (1963)

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Leonora Carrington in Mexico City III

Cobra Cabra - Vista posterior - / Cobra Goat - Back -



Cobra Cabra - Frente - / Cobra Goat - Front -

From the exhibit on Paseo de la Reforma (Main street). Sculptures and paintings.

See other posts of Leonora Carrington, one of the greatest surrealistic painter and sculptor of our time.

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Leonora Carrington

Two works by the greatest surrealistic painter & sculptor, Leonora Carrington: Crocodile Fountain and the bench "There's no place anymore" [Ya no hay lugar].