Today I have another work of art that I saw at the Art Institue of Chicago. I took a photo of this one because I knew I wanted to research it when I got home. It's such an unusual image.
This work was created by Remedios Varo, a woman born in Catalonia in 1908. Her father was an engineer and he taught her to draw. She attended school in Madrid.
Varo arrived in Mexico in December of 1941 as an artist seeking refuge from the Spanish Civil War and WWII.
Upon her untimely death in 1963, it was given to her mother in remembrance of her daughter.
This was the perfect choice of art for mourning Varo because in addition to being the last painting she created, its message is one of regeneration and new life.
Another artist I would never have known if I hadn't been inspired by her work to learn more.
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