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Remedios Varo
Remedios Varo
Remedios Varo Uranga (December 16 1908 - October 8, 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican, para-surrealist painter.
She was born María de los Remedios Varo Uranga in Anglès, Girona, Spain in 1908.
During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement.
She met her second husband (the first was Gerardo Lizarraga, a painter),
the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret in Barcelona.
8/01/2010
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington (born April 6, 1917) is a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist.
Carrington saw Max Ernst's work in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London
where she was immediately attracted to the Surrealist artist before actually meeting him.
She met Max Ernst at a party in London in 1937. The artists bonded and returned to Paris together
where Ernst promptly separated from his wife. In 1938 they left Paris and settled
in Saint Martin d'Ardèche in the Provence region, of the south of France.
The new couple collaborated and supported each other's artistic development.
With the outbreak of World War II, Max Ernst was arrested by French authorities for being a "hostile alien".
Thanks to the intercession of Paul Éluard, and other friends
including the American journalist Varian Fry he was discharged a few weeks later.
7/20/2010
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