Through her art, Varo expressed her feminist beliefs and her need to oppose the superiority of male artists of that era. The artist adopted mysticism and the occult as her main theme, and dismissed Christian and religious symbolism (trending leitmotifs of surrealist artists of the time, such as Salvador Dali in his later work, Max Ernst’s Crucifixion or Victor Brauner’s Adam & Eve). She combined mystical beings and utopic machines together to give birth to her unique and enchanting style. In her paintings, Varo found a safe place to revolt against Catholic practices from her maternal side, which the artist found quite restricting. Therefore, she found herself drifting toward Surrealism and adopting it as the style, in which she would express the struggles of her inner world. Being influenced in a technical and philosophical manner by her father, and spiritually by her deeply religious mother, Varo was torn between the two worlds. He also opened the doorway to her vivid imagination by presenting her with fantasy and adventure books. Varo’s father, an engineer by profession, nurtured his daughter’s artistic potential by mentoring her in developing technical drawing skills. Also, the great influence was her father, who instilled some core values in her, such as her ardent perfectionism, and the freedom of thought, which later took shape in her artwork. The stepping stones for her original form of Surrealism were set early in her childhood and adolescence, fuelled by a multicultural background and upbringing. She defied the male dominated artistic world of that era through her unique and peculiar approach to Surrealism. Remedios Varo Uranga was one of the few acknowledged female surrealist painters of the first half of the 20th century.
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