The Magical Art of Remedios Varo

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  • čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
  • Throughout history, the art movement known as surrealism, has always offered the individual an alternative avenue that challenges the rational influence on the human experience. How we perceive our own emotions, perceptions, memories, likes, dislikes and so on, can instantly be twisted by something unexpected or uncanny that can be discovered within surreal works of art.
    This in turn has allowed artists out there an opportunity to heighten not only their creative skills, but also the meaning behind their work, the analytical approach to what they want to convey and to even connect more interactively with their viewers. Artists who specialise in surrealism are nearly always masterful riddlers. Meticulously planting secrets and sort of easter eggs deep within their works for the viewer to discover and study, to ultimately come to their own conclusions.
    One such artist that undoubtedly provided this in her extraordinary work, was Spanish-born Mexican surrealist Remedios Varo. A truly one of a kind individual who struggled to fit anywhere through-out most of her life. Challenged with poverty, surrounded by violent political conflict and raised in a deeply strict and religious family, Varo faced many grim challenges, but would in the end transform these experiences into magical dreamscapes within a collection of over 500 paintings she had created up until the time of her sudden death in 1963. Her mystic art ranging from paradisiacal to hauntingly ominous have landed her reputation of one of Mexico’s most beloved artists ever since.
    Here we’ll be exploring the artwork of Remedios Varo.
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Komentáře • 276

  • @SapasMons
    @SapasMons Před rokem +61

    Remedios Varo was a magnificent artist and she was Leonora Carringtons BFF. Their friendship was legendary. Comparative studies of the work of these two women reveals a most fascinating shared dreamscape. Some of the most interesting characters in Leonoras books are about her friend Remedios. You can always tell when she makes an appearance in a short story.

    • @Violet-qf8dr
      @Violet-qf8dr Před rokem +6

      The Hearing Trumpet is one of my all time favorite books.

  • @kristinamullen4066
    @kristinamullen4066 Před rokem +106

    She's one of my favorite, if not favorite artists.I'm in awe of her imagination.

    • @witsendartstudio7135
      @witsendartstudio7135 Před rokem +2

      Same.

    • @Flux_One
      @Flux_One Před 7 měsíci +1

      Have you heard of the Surrealist Kay Sage? She was a brilliant artist. There's a great short documentary on CZcams about her

  • @fionastirling986
    @fionastirling986 Před rokem +143

    Thank you for covering this artist! She’s one of my favorite surrealists.

  • @vinnygothika7510
    @vinnygothika7510 Před rokem +25

    "Creation of the Birds." Is beautiful, I really like that piece, its so serene, magical, and holds a kindness.

  • @GazingAtTheMoon
    @GazingAtTheMoon Před rokem +29

    Her art is the main reason I lean towards the surrealism genre. Absolutely great work

  • @ReynaSingh
    @ReynaSingh Před rokem +296

    “The dream world and the real world are the same” -Remedios Varo

    • @nonamedrafter414
      @nonamedrafter414 Před rokem +8

      No there not
      -eby

    • @iamPROTOTYPE
      @iamPROTOTYPE Před rokem +14

      @@nonamedrafter414 well you create your reality either way, so you limit or free yourself by your beliefs.

    • @VelvetMetrolink
      @VelvetMetrolink Před rokem +11

      ​@iamPROTOTYPE If you genuinely believe you create your own reality and that the dream world and real world are the same, do me a favour. Don't eat for a week. And then dream that pain away. The reality of poverty will teach you what is reality and what is pretentious waffle REAL quick when your body starts digesting itself.

    • @chemicallystimulated476
      @chemicallystimulated476 Před rokem

      You know that is bullshit

    • @bruceleroywayne
      @bruceleroywayne Před rokem

      ⁠@@VelvetMetrolinkdamn, who shit in your frosted flakes?… we all understand you may have had a hard life or whatever, but that doesnt mean you get to shit on how other people think just because they dont agree with your worldview. how about you stop being so close-minded?..ever thought about that?

  • @dubitataugustinus
    @dubitataugustinus Před rokem +23

    Remedios Varo is so underated, her art is beautiful and haunting. Great video!

  • @elainealibrandi6364
    @elainealibrandi6364 Před rokem +33

    Thank you for creating this video of one of my favorite artists. Four years of art history classes in a prominent art college back in the 1970s, and Varo, as well as many women artists, was never mentioned. I also use my blood in my works, especially my nature and environmental art. Your videos are wonderful; please keep creating them!

  • @sophiaisabelle01
    @sophiaisabelle01 Před rokem +19

    Remedios Varo seems like a unique artist with a profound mind. These paintings contain various symbolisms that need to be examined more in depth. Great video as always.

  • @boddouce
    @boddouce Před rokem +32

    Thank you so much for covering Varos on your channel. Ever since I experienced her paintings in person I knew that the word must be spread. She’s one of the greatest composers of surreal imagery and she has never gotten her due thanks to misogynistic art historians. This summer a collection of her work will be shown at the art Institute of Chicago.

    • @thomasbell7033
      @thomasbell7033 Před rokem +2

      I know it's fashionable to assume that if a woman doesn't become internationally famous, it has to be the fault of misogyny. In Varo's case, she was famously unprolific, and practiced her craft far outside the eye of, say, the New York publicity mill. Also, she died relatively young. She is my favorite Surrealist, next to her pal Leonora Carrington.

    • @boddouce
      @boddouce Před rokem

      However, the surrealist were misogynistic in there practice. From what I’ve read they didn’t want women to be artist they only saw them as a subjective part of the art. They viewed them as objects of desire or objects to be feared. Most of the women surrealist were known by the men but I don’t think they promoted them. Art historians from the 20th century are known misogynist, leaving out most women from their art history books.

    • @msmacmac1000
      @msmacmac1000 Před rokem +1

      I just saw the show yesterday at AIC. She has changed my life. Truly stunning, brilliant and liberating work. I am so grateful to have JUST found her. I will be back in CDMX in December. On her trail❤

  • @DarkwaveMistress
    @DarkwaveMistress Před rokem +16

    Remedios is my favorite artist ever. I try to see her paintings whenever they are displayed in the MAM, unfortunately I couldn't go last time. Thank you for speaking about her incredible work.

  • @HowlingSpirit
    @HowlingSpirit Před rokem +9

    The alchemical influences could be of the spiritual instead of the technical. I imagine Varo found significance in spiritual alchemical as it may have helped transform her negative emotions into positive ones considering her hardships. Similar to the transition of base metals to noble metals, the mind can be reshaped from base to noble.

  • @enistoja
    @enistoja Před rokem +4

    I just wrote an essay about Remedios Varo, and how she drew Other and Inhuman figures that were aesthetically pleasing, as if embracing the monstrous and the different to fight back against oppressors. Thanks for talking about her!

  • @CarolH2O
    @CarolH2O Před rokem +43

    Excellent video and an artist I'd never heard of and now will look into. I feel inspired by such transcendent art. I'm clumsy with words though. Thank you Blind Dweller, you are much appreciated.

    • @BlindDweller
      @BlindDweller  Před rokem +4

      Thank Carol 😁 glad the video inspired you!

    • @adastra7939
      @adastra7939 Před rokem

      @@BlindDweller Can you do Otto Dix, Alfred Kubin, and Henry Fuseli?

  • @mus7c
    @mus7c Před rokem +3

    i love remedios varo's paintings! she embraced Mexico as her country and we embraced her back, so much so that one of her works was the cover of one of our nationally mandated schoolbooks for many, many years. i managed to get to an exhibit of her works in my city before the pandemic and it was so breathtaking! i love visiting museums but my adhd usually has me breezing through them like I'm in a hurry when I'm really not - but not hers. she made me stand there and observe longer than probably anyone else has

  • @celestenova777
    @celestenova777 Před rokem +9

    She had such an extraordinary imagination with so much to look at in each piece that I find very inspiring, thought provoking with each one beautifully painted. Thanks for uploading this wonderful creative artist's work.

  • @yanuszg
    @yanuszg Před rokem +9

    Great that you brought her work to larger audience ! IT would be even greater to show more of her work instead of analising few paintings . Varo was and still is underminded in history of Art - she deserves to be in the best museums of the world . I put her work on the same level with Max Ernst , Dali ,de Chirico and others .

  • @avirtualcanvas7584
    @avirtualcanvas7584 Před rokem +6

    So happy you have gifted us with this brilliant video,Remedios Varo is one of my favourite of the female surrealist artists, she really did have a uniquely magical look to her mystery infused works. I think she is one of the most underrated of the female surrealists, I always oved the mix of alchemy,and spiritual and ethereal in her art. Her paintings and prints yeild more each time you look into them.They are dream like but in a way that is very unique to the artist,yet the beings/figures in her work somehow engage with the viewer on a really profoundly deep level and invoke almost a magical primeval part of ourselves. I have a few boooks on the artist, but few people realy look into the artist and her work. So glad that you have given us your insight into the art of this astoundingly spellbinding artist,and as an arttist yourself, I think you see her art in a more connective empathic way too.I think the women artists of the surrealist movement still don't have the respect and plac they deserve in art history,so glad you have added your thoughtful insight into this artist. (matt) P.S Perahps you could look at the strange work of Kay Sage another lesser know surrealist woman artist and also Leonora Carrington.

  • @eduardoaguilar1550
    @eduardoaguilar1550 Před rokem +11

    Please, do Leonora Carrington next!!!
    Saludos de Mx

  • @gonesavage
    @gonesavage Před rokem +6

    I'm glad she'd finally really getting her due. She's incredible and I hope to see some of her work in real life some day. Thanks Blind Dweller!

  • @ernestoh429
    @ernestoh429 Před rokem +3

    Wonderful video!! Also it is worth noting that alchemy is the transmutation of our inner substances, our inner humors, the ordeals, it’s NOT about trying to transform things into precious metals. Alchemy is about nature and the different dimensions that exist within it, beauty and art, humans, all come from the same source! Great video!!!

  • @blissfuldissonance
    @blissfuldissonance Před rokem +2

    I'd never heard of Remedios before, but her work is right up my alley. I ordered a couple of prints as soon as I finished the video - thanks for covering her!

  • @saintsparklebear1942
    @saintsparklebear1942 Před rokem +3

    the Occult and alchemical symbols I witness in Varo's work, speaks to the nature to occultism as about inner transformation and self-efficacy than about anything pseudo-scientific, paranormal or otherworldly. I'm really into Bosch, and studying alchemical symbols really helped to deepen my understanding of his work. I think Varo is the same way. Alchemical symbols have a use and life outside of traditional alchemical practice.

    • @saintsparklebear1942
      @saintsparklebear1942 Před rokem

      PS. love your videos. Awesome work! Thank you for exploring my favorite artists!

  • @DeidreL9
    @DeidreL9 Před rokem +3

    This has absolutely made my day! She was a brilliant woman with such vision and technique and so much magic and soul. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

  • @egocentric222
    @egocentric222 Před rokem +3

    Viva México! 🇲🇽❤️ one thing I loved about going to school in Mexico is having been exposed to so much art.

  • @potatoesandstuff2932
    @potatoesandstuff2932 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for making a video on Remedios Varo! She is my favorite surreal artist. Her paintings always reminded me of slightly eerie child’s book illustrations.

  • @laneallen7118
    @laneallen7118 Před rokem +4

    I literally could not be happier with this video

  • @itshel2677
    @itshel2677 Před rokem +2

    I really enjoy these videos. They are calm and very well paced which makes them super easy to watch even with a longer runtime. The artists that are being picked are also very intressting since they are relatively unknown when compared to names like DaVinci or Van Gogh. Nobody needs 100 documentaries about the same few renaissance painters when there are so many much more intressting artists out there. I especially like how female artists get some attention on your channel since there are a lot of them but only few are ever talked about.

  • @Goku-wi8if
    @Goku-wi8if Před rokem +7

    Still waiting for Zdzisław Beksiński series just like you did with Francis Bacon 😢

  • @anarchoautism
    @anarchoautism Před rokem +5

    best art channel on youtube

  • @yellowdotje6278
    @yellowdotje6278 Před rokem +1

    Thank you so much for this video. I had never heard of her, of course, in schools we only learn about the male artists. What a gem! I love het art! i am certainly going to look into her. The last painting that you are showing (the calling) gives me the impression that the figure is coming from a planet and in this case mercurius, as she has a container with red mercury in her hand. And mercurius is the messenger. Maybe her calling was being a messenger in a world where most of the living beings were still asleep. And with her art she can wake up people. In the other paintings it is clear that she points out that nature/creation is all about light, colour,vibration; music, geometry is all connected to life.

  • @kristinamullen4066
    @kristinamullen4066 Před rokem +1

    I agree with her that the work is most important.If one is interested in diagnosing an artist's psyche, that can be interesting, but the art is the thing that endures.

  • @pennymiller2254
    @pennymiller2254 Před rokem +1

    How lovely to have found another artist that I love I’m going now to look at all her work thank you again

  • @ashicks
    @ashicks Před rokem +2

    I love the surrealists and this one is new to me. Thank you for sharing!

  • @RedcoatsReturn
    @RedcoatsReturn Před rokem +2

    Superb art! 😲👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊 Thank you for educating me about her work, a unique mix of Bosch, Dali and new concepts too 😊 I love your interpretations, very lucid and pround 👍👍

  • @pinchetono13
    @pinchetono13 Před rokem +2

    I discovered this channel not too long ago and have become enamored with your biographical retelling and analyses of these artists and their lives! Keep it up❣️! If it’s not too much to ask, I’d like to request the German artist Kaethe Kollwitz. Thank you!

  • @bramblebear3121
    @bramblebear3121 Před rokem +2

    I was not aware of her work. She's fantastic. I loved every piece you discussed. Thank you.

  • @nelsaf365
    @nelsaf365 Před rokem +1

    My favorite RV painting is the figure in an olive cloak that appears to be dropping a mask on a hole. It haunts me. Thank you for covering this artist.

  • @portpiraya5758
    @portpiraya5758 Před rokem +4

    Really love what you do! Great to see! Each video is getting better and better.

  • @justkiddin84
    @justkiddin84 Před měsícem

    14:24 I think your assumption of the feminine is spot on as it is not a colorful bird, has egg shaped alembics as a source of her creation and looks like her other feminine characters.
    18:15 Mars, the fiery red planet, is very important in alchemy.
    And alchemy is simply early chemical experimentation. The story of trying to create gold was a clever way to get funding from greedy kings. Several alchemists eventually used sleight of hand and stage magic tricks to produce gold and jewels. Philosophy was originally about all natural sciences-alchemy was a philosophy and the symbols and ideas often were by necessity hidden to protect the experimenters from a wrathful church or king.✌️
    I love her artwork. The only thing that haunts me about her is the lack of even one photo of her smiling. She looks, from childhood, as though she suffered from depression. I am so glad she escaped to Mexico when she did. I feel she would not have survived that war. At least not her mind. I hope wherever she is, there is soft light, and birds.✌️

  • @davidrobinson9507
    @davidrobinson9507 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for your excellent work.
    I so enjoy your relaxed pace and the way you get around to making points or key synopses or something. I'm an artist, and I find sometimes I'm narrating in my head. Kind of to sort things out; like putting a bunch of recent paintings along the wall and looking at them to try and figure yourself out and/ or see where you're going. The time axis is one of the dimensions we develop in and lots can come out with looking back or discovering an artist from the past. On any given day, some piece of art history might flutter into my awareness, and from there on in exert some kind of influence on me and my work and my life. Amazing. It could be in that old coffee table book from the seventies, or in a CZcams video.
    You mentioned that you are interested in other artist's lives. Of course I think you should talk about me. But more strongly I associate that thought tendency with the now unnecessary motivation that we seek when we're young. As sad and worrisome as it is to become old( ish) , it sure is a relief to not care about where or how or if you actually 'stack up' in the art universe.
    Maybe time will tell.

  • @grainofsand4176
    @grainofsand4176 Před 11 měsíci

    10:00 They appear to preserved/ "put on hold" like the woman in the mountains, or trapped, though they do not appear distressed. 12:15 these birds just emerged from their cacoon freed or woken up by music. Based on the video noting this in the previous painting , the human cacti figures are also phallic-albeit twisted. 16:18 The chamber looks like an egg. It feels very cyclic to me-the light comes in a window-the bird flies out the next window and the tube that comes from the left window resembles the light from the magnifying glass light window. The hanging "vases" in the corner are exchanging light or liquid...all showing her interest in alchemy too. Personally, I think alchemy is valid-at least symbolically. Thank you for introducing me to this artist. It really feels like it is somewhere between here and there.

  • @blackreazor
    @blackreazor Před rokem

    As an artist my self i think she tried to explain how artists manipulate light to create these illuions. One time i heard some said that if musicians had to array the sound artists would have to invent the sounds the notes and then play them. Speaking in terms of color and composition.

  • @ZenBreeze
    @ZenBreeze Před rokem +1

    I don't know by what strange fate this video ended up in my youtube feed but thank you! Maybe 2 decades ago, I saw an image of a painting with a new moon in a cup. I didn't save the details and wondered about it from time to time. The minute I started the video, I recognized the style, searched and found it (Nacer de Nuevo).

  • @LunarShimmer
    @LunarShimmer Před rokem +2

    Wow, I love The Call, and the painting featured where the artist is painting with stardust. They seem like the same kind of mystical, beautiful things I might draw. The layering and colors in Solar Music is incredible too.

  • @troopofechos
    @troopofechos Před rokem

    In the painting Solar Music, where the sun is illuminating the blue birds at the top of the painting, they have come from their frozen cocoons that were depicted in Allegory of Winter. You can see the broken pieces of ice and where it is melting and dripping. Thank you for introducing me to this artist!

  • @keenoled
    @keenoled Před rokem

    A new Blind Dweller is out, yay! And I'm so glad you're calling her by her surname, thank you!!

  • @vxxiii4160
    @vxxiii4160 Před rokem +1

    Remedios Varo is one of my all time favorite artists.

  • @TheShmileyDawg
    @TheShmileyDawg Před rokem +4

    This was really cool, I learned about a new artist today! Perhaps you could cover N.C. Wyeth one day! I love how imaginative his paintings were, and how his brother Andrew was on the complete opposite end of the spectrum with his grey, cold, depressing paintings.

  • @sexydirrtymoney
    @sexydirrtymoney Před rokem +1

    Never heard of her before this.....but now I'm in love with her paintings 😍

  • @aaron_osborne
    @aaron_osborne Před rokem +1

    Can you cover Irish painter and writer Christy Brown? I am reading his autobiography My Left Foot which centers on him going through life with cerebral palsy. The condition only allowed his left foot to function hence the book title. I have cerebral palsy as well so it would feel great to be represented.

  • @Chiller01
    @Chiller01 Před rokem +1

    Regarding her first painting, in 1938 the Nazi occupation of France is still 2 years off. The war really hasn’t kicked off since Germany’s invasion of Poland happened in 1939. However, she must have just lived through the Spanish Civil War which itself was horrific and fraught with atrocities on both sides. The revolution of course was won by the Fascist side under Franco which must have been devastating for someone like Remedios Vado.

  • @mejbarron
    @mejbarron Před rokem

    I saw Varo's art today for the first time. I say to myself, how can that be? Varo was before Leonard Cohen, but the end of the following lyrics from Anthem seem meant for threads of light in your video of Varo:
    "Anthem"
    The birds they sang
    At the break of day
    Start again
    I heard them say
    Don't dwell on what
    Has passed away
    Or what is yet to be.
    Ah the wars they will
    Be fought again
    The holy dove
    She will be caught again
    Bought and sold
    And bought again
    The dove is never free.
    Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.

  • @bee73086
    @bee73086 Před rokem

    I love this artist. There was the coolest little shop in Ensenada Mexico where the owner had beautiful prints on canvas.
    He had so much knowledge about her and interesting stories. This was around 2006-2015 or so and I don't remember as much as I would like, although he did say that she did some of the original ads for Valium. He did little write ups for each picture about his thoughts and meanings along with any history that may have been relevant.
    I probably have like 10 of her prints on canvas, last time I was there I found the shop but he had retired and they did not have any of those prints left.
    Anyway thanks for the lovely video.
    I think her cats are my favorite.

  • @Mistress0fyaoi
    @Mistress0fyaoi Před rokem +1

    Love your videos and love learning about different artists, one artist I would love to see you cover is Australian artist Rosaleen Norton who was quite controversial in her day for themes of occult arts and religion in her work

  • @AbstractCatsMedia
    @AbstractCatsMedia Před rokem

    Surrealism, is my favorite art form. My suggestion would be Luigi Serafini author of The Codex Serafinianus. This was released in the early 80s, I was about 15, I had the chance to by the 1st edition, but for what ever reason I got something, else forever kicking myself.

  • @Kowjja
    @Kowjja Před rokem

    6:05 i love this philosophy
    i wish more artists thought like that

  • @rosetarbell7274
    @rosetarbell7274 Před rokem

    oh THANK YOU for this video. There just aren't enough people highlighting this artist; she's one of my top 3 favorites. You already covered the other two: Giger and Beksinski

  • @LuisManuelRodriguez-c8c
    @LuisManuelRodriguez-c8c Před rokem +2

    Allegory of Winter, They Cactus like trees are what's left of humans beings (those two are probably a couple as I see a man standing, and a woman sitting) After a war, wey are left rough and thorny with only frozen memories of beauty and color. Perhaps, only time will melt the ice someday.
    Also the war was probably during a cold Winter.

  • @miolosdamari
    @miolosdamari Před 11 měsíci

    I'd definitely suggest you research and make a video on Anita Malfatti. She was a brazillian artist who studied the european vanguards and made an exhibition that encouraged the Modern Art Week in 1922. Her work, however, was recieved with much criticism from more conservative artists at the time, like Monteiro Lobato, who affected her entire career after a harsh critique on a newspaper known as "Paranoia and Mystification", after wich she was never as experimental again.

  • @ManlyPHall-ce8dc
    @ManlyPHall-ce8dc Před měsícem

    Winters Analogy gave an immediate feeling that the pods like things are human experiences and or souls trapped by our environment. Trapped by what we are and where we placed ourselves.

  • @blackthornsloe8049
    @blackthornsloe8049 Před rokem

    I really appreciate Simon's work . The featured artist was fascinating . I'm not sure why your channel came up on my feed but I've subscribed .🌻

  • @XragonX24
    @XragonX24 Před rokem

    Love this. Creation of the Birds was my first exposure to Varo's work. It's truly magical and otherworldly. I thank you Dweller for putting her name into my bank of artists to admire and appreciate.
    Yet as I was watching you break down the painting I just noticed the bird on the floor. Quite a contrast to the others. I couldn't help ponder it. Then it hit me. I don't think that little brown bird is eating crumbs, like what I though it was doing. I figured those must be bits of ceiling, like the whole space is showing signs of decay. I can see the Biblical interpretation of it and the symbolic condemnation towards the little bird, but then, this could be a positive thing--as i'm sure the Romantics would have thought of it that way--seeing how the creator figure is literally a bird trapped in a cage. There's a unique perspective in this, as most artist/creators are in a way trapped inside a world they can't escape, despite their being evidence of something outside of them, as clearly shown. The painting clearly is a candid critique of orthodoxy and religious dogmatism, likely pertaining to Catholicism specifically, but what really interests me is the theological implications and the questions regarding the limits and extent of God's powers, along with His freedom...
    Idk if I'm the only one who interprets it that way. I just wanted to share my initial thoughts.

  • @sarahhurst701
    @sarahhurst701 Před rokem +5

    I absolutely love surrealism. Thanks for this video, Blind Dweller. Your content is of the highest quality.💜🌍

  • @louisdebeer2055
    @louisdebeer2055 Před 6 měsíci

    She continues to create beautiful works

  • @Ransome1690
    @Ransome1690 Před 9 měsíci

    I have watched this video once before but I just had to comeback and watch it again, Remedio Varos paintings always has this dark, cold and isolated atmosphere to them, but not in an ominous way, instead I always feel a feeling of comfort and delicacy to them, as if i'm gazing right into an ethereal world inhabited by these strange surreal characters, and that's what I like about her paintings.while most other surrealist artworks consists of showing a conglomeration of whimsical "junk" that seems like they were just thrown together like someones terrible idea of decoration, Remedio Varo instead appears to maintain a type of organization to her work, a since of geography that could suggest a populous and culture yet maintains the surrealism aspect. There are weird faces coming out of walls, cartoony looking perspective and architecture, creatures that look like they could very well be apart of the faerie like some of what we see in the video, but then your thrown a curve ball with silly humanoid creatures using clown cycles for legs or mirrors for a head. It all messes with your mind and keeps you guessing as to what to make of it. It's serious yet playful, organized yet illogical, dark yet soothing, everything is constantly in juxtoposition to one another, her work is one that's truly deserving of the title surrealism.

  • @brentmartin1981
    @brentmartin1981 Před rokem

    I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. Every time you put out a new video I immediately have to watch it (with a glass of red wine of course). I especially love her paintings involving owls, they are my absolute favorite bird.

  • @DannyDaCat
    @DannyDaCat Před rokem

    Art Institute in Chicago has an exhibition on her work! Well worth it!!

  • @jackieviolet3375
    @jackieviolet3375 Před rokem

    Love this Artist!, she reminded me alot of Salvador D'ali, her Artwork, is Dreamy,and yet confusing,but yet comforting, I guess it depends on what we as individuals see in her work! I truly hope they come out with a showing of her work in an Art Gallery near me soon!!!!! I am WoW'ed ,and Inspired!! Brilliant video and very well spoken,Thank you!!!!

  • @pravkdey
    @pravkdey Před rokem

    I love how just nice her work is. It's like those interesting dreams where you don't what the heck is going on but it's ok

  • @jonsey3645
    @jonsey3645 Před rokem

    Thank you so very much! What you do is wonderful and quite important, in my opinion. The art that you have introduced me to have increased my knowledge so much, and I will wager that thousands of others are growing in appreciation of some artifacts that they would have missed if not for you. You are appreciated.

  • @sakurafields5024
    @sakurafields5024 Před rokem

    Remedios Varo was the artist who inspired the creation of Dana Terrance's The Owl House on Disney. Good idea picking this artist for a video discussion!👍

  • @Surrealcrow
    @Surrealcrow Před rokem

    I love surrealism. Most of my favorite artist are surrealist. Thank you for this video. Im enjoying it. I need inspiration.

    • @BlindDweller
      @BlindDweller  Před rokem

      Hope the video helped you with your inspiration drought a tad!

  • @mariacoronel2547
    @mariacoronel2547 Před rokem

    Love your narration and deep knowledge of art. I have seen her art but for some reason never knew her name. Thank you from Nicaragua 🇳🇮.

  • @Alstr89
    @Alstr89 Před rokem

    Yooooo finally. My favorite artist. I always go see her work at the Molaa in L.A. museum of Latin American art ❤❤❤❤

  • @SilverDawnArrow
    @SilverDawnArrow Před rokem

    I've never seen this artist before, but I love her work. Definitely going to seek out more of it now

  • @bluishbuncake
    @bluishbuncake Před rokem +4

    🎀I’m always so excited to see you post, seeing my favourite artists represented & discovering artists i would’ve otherwise probably never known is so insightful and inspiring.
    I’ve been thinking of suggesting this for awhile now. There are two contemporary fairly underground dark/surreal Japanese artists who’s art i’ve been captivated with for years.
    There’s is Risa Mehmet, who suffers from alopecia and paints her experiences with the physical pain of illness, alienation and isolation in the form of these soft pastel nightmare dreamscapes. Littered throughout this world are the weeping, bleeding bodies of injured and sick sweet-faced, doll-like creatures and girls.
    Then we have Tama, or tama_watercolor, who paints sickly sweet, stunning, highly detailed, fairytale-like images of what at closer inspection often turns out to be nightmarish or gruesome images depicting illness, inequality, pain, abuse, objectification and sorrow.
    Her style is soft, pastel and doll-like & she draws only the eyes of these girls, making it impossible to tell exactly what they’re thinking/feeling or if they’re alive or deceased. She never depicts blood, despite the gruesome nature her work possesses, which gives her art a fascinating quality, adding to the doll-like effect.
    If you wanna know more, i’m happy to give more info!

  • @sherryt388
    @sherryt388 Před rokem +1

    As always you show the most interesting and beautiful art. Love your channel.

  • @themysteriousdomainmoviepalace

    I hope you do Leonora Carrington at some point too. I think Varo and Carrington are the best surrealists. Cheers!

  • @poetryjones7946
    @poetryjones7946 Před 10 měsíci +2

    LOVE Remedios! Well done!

  • @melissamontoya3897
    @melissamontoya3897 Před rokem +2

    Bravo Blind Dweller! Been waiting for this one! I hope Leonora Carrington will follow ❤

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 Před rokem

    Varo's art has a tranquil feel too it

  • @ericdravenX00X
    @ericdravenX00X Před rokem

    Remedios has Very Beautiful works. I like Solar Music alot. I like Simons work and his art style also...

  • @ainenaoife1
    @ainenaoife1 Před rokem

    Fascinating. Thanks for introducing me to her work.

  • @hbartz99
    @hbartz99 Před rokem +1

    I love Harry Clarke's works, I don't know too much about his life either. It'd be cool to see a video on him

  • @Unlight-Artwork
    @Unlight-Artwork Před měsícem

    Absolutely mindblowing pieces, it's really inspiring to look at these amazing works!🖤

  • @aliceamos7070
    @aliceamos7070 Před rokem

    I didn't know about her fefore. Than you for this video! I'm in love with her art! It's just great!

  • @pcb1623
    @pcb1623 Před rokem

    Fantastic video information & art! Phenomenal paintings from an artist new to me.

  • @aburninglandfillofbadmovie2930

    I think that the bird-being in the Creation of Birds painting might be Athena, her symbol was an owl and I recall reading that priestesses of hers would at times wear capes made out of feathers, I don't exactly remember where I read that and I'm not 100% that's true, but I very clearly remember that. I also don't exactly agree that alchemy was a complete failure as a science, I'm sure there were alchemists who made a very normal living doing things like making paint, sealing wax, varnishes, glass, dyes, glue, booze, and other such very mundane objects.

  • @imsoemo2234
    @imsoemo2234 Před rokem

    Thank you for introducing me to new artists, such a great channel. I especially enjoyed the H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński videos. It would be pretty awesome to see a video on Rob Gonslaves he is an amazing surrealist artist with a unique style.

  • @coming_up_roses
    @coming_up_roses Před rokem +1

    13:27 where do you find such high quality images of paintings? any specific websites or just googling until a high quality one comes up??

  • @natassia6110
    @natassia6110 Před rokem

    Thank you for this. She was an amazing painter. I found it almost impossible to find info on her in English. I managed to find a book on her - which didn’t cost $1,000+. One of my favourites along with Leonora Carrington. Both overshadowed by Frida, who were equal to her, if not better.(my opinion as art is subjective)

  • @MandyvanGoeije
    @MandyvanGoeije Před rokem

    Great video! I love her work! Aside from these interpretations of her work I always wonder if the darkness in many of her paintings could perhaps depict her processing world war two, like the forest that seems dead with a beam of light that brings plants to life as the figure gently plays the light as it comes. It’s hope, indeed. And what I feel maybe a call for gentleness with the newborn light so that life can renew in a shattered world. But that is just what I read into it….😊

  • @stevenheck4769
    @stevenheck4769 Před rokem +1

    A new quite late find. I just turned 71. A Masteresse

  • @michaelgabriel4442
    @michaelgabriel4442 Před rokem

    Wonderful story. Amazing artist. Never heard of her before. Amazing style

  • @ecleARTia
    @ecleARTia Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you for this amazingly inspiring video. Just discovered your channel it looks exactly my type of content. Definitely subscribing and looking forward to indulging in all the beautiful weird and wonderful 😊

  • @magicksocks1
    @magicksocks1 Před rokem

    Good to see you did a video on Remedios Varo. ❤

  • @DarckAngel11
    @DarckAngel11 Před rokem

    I love her art, It has inspired me countless times when daydreaming.

  • @VultureXV
    @VultureXV Před rokem

    Some of these photos remind me of places I've visited in my dreams.

  • @spoiledme5802
    @spoiledme5802 Před rokem

    Thank you , one of my favorite painters !