![]() ![]() Creation of the Birds (1958) shows a bird-like. Kaplan seeks to give us the larger picture, placing her subject in the. She was interested in science, in the explorations of space and time, and she saw art as a crucial visionary complement to science. Now, in Unexpected Journeys, the first full-scale critical biography, Janet A. ![]() Varo had been trained in the skills of mechanical drawing by her father. Such works reveal Varo's main concerns: with dreams, with the events of her own life, and with the occult. In Exploration of the Sources of the Orinoco River (1959), a bowler-hatted woman travels in a waistcoat boat powered by wings on strings through a flooded forest to meet a small overflowing goblet on a tiny table. Her paintings show slender, attentuated figures with mask-like faces sometimes with wheels for feet, or confined by architectural facades, or built into peculiar vehicles of transport In The Useless Science or the Alchemist (1955), the patient worker cranking the mechanisms of elaborate scientific machines has drawn the chequered floor around her shoulders as if it were a drapery. Unexpected journeys : the art and life of Remedios Varo On loan from City Campus Library Floor 5 (709.092 VAR ). Remedios Varo had a deep belief in the power of the spiritual in life, in the potent interdependence of people and objects. ![]()
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