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Old 06-18-2007, 06:58 PM
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I wish img code wasn't disabled so we could see the pictures right in the posts, but oh well.

Another by Hopper
New York Office I think this is a very lonely one.

http://americanart.si.edu/hopper/ima...yoffice_1b.jpg


Avane, are you familiar with Remedios Varo? I really like her work. I have one of her paintings Gatos as my desktop wallpaper.

http://www.fcgjung.com.es/article_img/Paraiso_gatos.jpg

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Remedios Varo (December 16, 1908 - October 8, 1963) was a surrealist painter. She was born in Anglés Cataluña, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was largely influenced by the surrealist movement. She was forced into exile from Paris during the Nazi occupation of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941. She initially considered Mexico a temporary haven, but would remain in Latin America for the rest of her life.

In Mexico she met native artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. However, her strongest ties would be to other exiles and expatriates, and especially her extraordinary friendship with the English painter Leonora Carrington. Her last major relationship would be with Walter Gruen, an Austrian who had endured concentration camps before escaping Europe. Gruen believed fiercely in Varo, and gave her the support that allowed her to fully concentrate on her painting.

After 1949 Varo developed into her mature and remarkable style, which remains beautifully enigmatic and instantly recognizable. She often worked in oil on masonite panels she prepared herself. Although her colors have the blended resonance of the oil medium, her brushwork often involved many fine strokes of paint laid closely together - a technique more reminiscent of egg tempera. She died at the height of her career.
I like this one a lot...it is a shame it is so small.

Insomnia
http://espelhodesombras.blogs.sapo.p...ios%20Varo.jpg


Vegetarian Vampires
http://orbita.starmedia.com/~latinosweb/rv29.jpg


Creación de las aves (Creation of the Birds)
http://www.nyas.org/snc/rw/46/images/varos1.jpg
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