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Remedios Varo
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(Or scroll down for images and details. Lenin is a participant in the eBay (EPN) affiliate program) The total overall size is an impressively large 20 x 24 inches with the image size 16 x 20 inches on the finest grade artist canvas available. There is a white border around the image, so it can either be board/dry mounted or stretched with standard OR gallery canvas bars. Your canvas will be rolled in tissue paper and sent in a strong cardboard tube with both top and bottom tightly secured. Unstretched.
Remedios Varo’s Disturbing Presence is a powerful exploration of unease, psychological tension and unseen forces lurking beneath the surface of reality. As with many of Varo’s most compelling works, the painting operates within a dreamlike atmosphere where ordinary logic dissolves and emotional states become physical environments. The result is a world that feels at once intimate, mysterious and profoundly unsettling. The title immediately establishes an atmosphere of ambiguity and apprehension. A “presence” suggests something sensed rather than fully seen — an invisible force occupying space and consciousness simultaneously. Throughout Varo’s art, hidden energies and spiritual undercurrents shape the lives of her figures, often suggesting realities that exist just beyond human perception. Varo possessed an extraordinary ability to transform psychological states into visual form. In Disturbing Presence, architecture, shadow and symbolic objects appear charged with emotional intensity, creating the sense that the environment itself has become sentient. Her enclosed interiors often function as metaphors for the mind, places where fear, memory and desire take material shape. The painting reflects Varo’s deep engagement with Surrealism, mysticism and esoteric philosophy. Rather than depicting nightmares through chaos or violence, she creates tension through stillness and precision. Every detail appears meticulously controlled, yet beneath that order lies the suggestion of something unstable or unknowable pressing against the visible world. Varo’s technical mastery intensifies the uncanny atmosphere of the work. Her background in technical drawing gave her compositions remarkable structural coherence, allowing even the most impossible scenes to appear believable. Strange objects, elongated spaces and carefully balanced forms combine to create a world governed by hidden laws beyond rational understanding. Born in Spain in 1908 and later exiled to Mexico after the upheavals of war in Europe, Varo developed her mature artistic vision in Mexico City, where she became associated with a circle of Surrealist artists and intellectuals fascinated by alchemy, psychology and spiritual transformation. Her paintings from this period remain among the most distinctive and intellectually rich works of twentieth-century art. What makes Disturbing Presence so compelling is the way it captures a feeling rather than a narrative. The viewer senses that something significant is occurring, yet its meaning remains elusive. This ambiguity is central to Varo’s art: her paintings function not as puzzles to be solved, but as psychological and spiritual experiences to be entered. Today, Disturbing Presence stands as another extraordinary example of Varo’s singular imaginative world — a universe where invisible forces shape reality, where mystery inhabits every shadow, and where the boundaries between dream, fear and revelation become impossibly thin. No Longer Available 2022: This and other Remedios Varo canvas prints are available @ ebay.com (direct link to Remedios Varo canvas prints) - not sure if those on offer are official or unofficial prints so please check with seller Ultimate Reading |
