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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 Hairy Locomotion is a wonderfully strange and imaginative example of the artist’s ability to merge humour, mystery and philosophical symbolism into a single unforgettable image. Like much of Varo’s work, the painting exists within a universe governed by dream logic, where machinery becomes organic, movement becomes ritual and the ordinary transforms into the fantastical. The title alone immediately captures the peculiar tension that defines the work. “Locomotion” suggests progress, travel and mechanical movement, yet the addition of “hairy” disrupts any sense of rational order. Varo delighted in such contradictions. Throughout her career, she repeatedly blurred the boundaries between living organisms and constructed machines, creating hybrid forms that feel simultaneously absurd, poetic and strangely believable. In Hairy Locomotion, movement itself appears transformed into something biological and unpredictable. The strange figures at the centre of the composition seem animated by hidden forces beyond ordinary physics, as though they belong to a parallel reality governed by symbolic rather than scientific laws. Varo’s worlds are filled with inventions that function less as machines than as extensions of thought, emotion and spiritual energy. Varo’s extraordinary technical precision gives even her most impossible visions a remarkable sense of internal coherence. Every texture, surface and mechanical detail is rendered with meticulous care, creating an atmosphere in which fantasy feels tangible. Her background in technical drawing allowed her to construct dreamlike environments with almost architectural credibility. The painting also reflects Varo’s fascination with transformation and hidden systems. Throughout her mature work, figures and objects are rarely static; they are engaged in processes of evolution, experimentation or spiritual passage. Motion becomes symbolic — not simply physical travel, but movement between states of consciousness and perception. Born in Spain in 1908 and later exiled to Mexico after the upheavals of war in Europe, Varo developed her mature artistic vision within a vibrant intellectual and Surrealist community in Mexico City. Influenced by alchemy, science, mysticism, literature and psychology, she created one of the most original imaginative worlds in twentieth-century art. Hairy Locomotion remains captivating because it balances playful invention with deeper philosophical resonance. Beneath its whimsical surface lies a meditation on movement, transformation and the strange mechanics of existence itself. Like the finest of Varo’s works, it invites viewers not merely to observe, but to enter a world where logic bends and imagination becomes its own form of reality. This giclee on canvas print beautifully captures the intricate detail, rich atmosphere and surreal energy of Varo’s original composition, making it an exceptional piece for admirers of visionary and Surrealist art.
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