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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.
More: 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 (Lenin is a participant in the eBay (EPN) affiliate program) At first glance, the work appears rooted in the long tradition of still life painting. Yet Varo immediately subverts convention by allowing the objects within the composition to awaken and transform. Food, vessels and domestic forms seem infused with hidden life, as though invisible energies are animating the scene from within. In Varo’s universe, nothing remains entirely fixed or inert. The painting reflects Varo’s lifelong fascination with unseen forces and processes of spiritual or alchemical change. Throughout her mature work, transformation functions as a central theme: figures evolve, spaces shift and ordinary reality dissolves into something mysterious and fluid. In Still Life Reviving, even the most familiar objects appear caught within a moment of magical awakening. Varo’s extraordinary technical precision gives the composition its uncanny power. Every object is rendered with delicate detail and careful structure, creating a convincing physical world despite the impossible events unfolding within it. Her background in technical drawing allowed her to balance imaginative freedom with remarkable visual coherence. At a deeper symbolic level, the painting may also be read as a meditation on creativity itself. The still life — traditionally associated with stillness and permanence — becomes dynamic and alive, suggesting that imagination has the power to reanimate and transform reality. Art, in Varo’s hands, becomes an act of resurrection and revelation. Born in Spain in 1908 and later exiled to Mexico following the upheavals of war in Europe, Varo developed one of the most distinctive artistic voices associated with twentieth-century Surrealism. Influenced by mysticism, alchemy, science and literature, she created visionary paintings that continue to fascinate viewers through their intellectual richness and emotional depth. Still Life Reviving remains one of Varo’s most memorable and inventive works because it transforms an established artistic genre into something entirely unexpected. The painting invites viewers into a world where matter itself seems conscious, where ordinary objects awaken into mystery, and where imagination quietly reshapes the laws of existence. This giclee on canvas print beautifully preserves the intricate textures, luminous atmosphere and surreal vitality of Varo’s original composition, making it a striking addition for collectors and admirers of visionary and Surrealist art. No Longer Available More: 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 |
