[The painting above is by Gunther Gerzso: "Los dias de la calle de Gabino Barreda (The days of Gabino Barreda Street)", 1944. Oil on canvas, 16x21-7/8 in. Private Collection.]
The painting includes:
* Leonora Carrington = female torso enveloped in clinging vines
* Benjamin Peret = disembodied figure seated on a table, his head floating in the clouds
* Esteban Frances playing a guitar, surrounded by naked women
* Gunther Gerzso = head peering out of a small box
* Remedios Varo = mysterious feline figure reclining on the floor, wearing a cat's-eye mask and draped in heavy fabric from which the cats peek out
[From left to right: Gerardo Lizarraga, Chiki Weisz, Jose Horna, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Gunther Gerszo, Benjamin Peret, and Miriam Wolf in the wedding of Carrington and Weisz, Mexico City, 1946]
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 powers.
Source: Wikipedia
ARTWORK by REMEDIOS VARO
This tribute to Remedios Varo was created by Julia