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This text is authored by Marisol Cecilia León Martínez. It was the result of the Creative Consciousness workshop taught by Master Ra’al Ki Victorieux, in Realia, Xalapa Veracruz, Mexico.
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Remedios Varo; The Loving Relationship between Man and Nature
The work The Creation of the Birds, 1957, by Remedios Varo, is a horizontal oil painting that plays with spaces of light and shadow in a luminosity created by the actions taking place in the painting. The technical mastery defines the substance of each element and the time of the story it narrates. The composition frames the main action at the golden point of the canvas, and the colors of golden luminosity reaffirm the spiritual content. The aesthetics are magical, cosmic, sublime, yet within an atmosphere of tranquility in the everyday. The love for creation and peace is clearly manifested. The theme is the creation or co-creation of nature, in a harmonious relationship between the character and the universe. For these characteristics, this work could well be a metaphor for the arcana of The World. Remedios Varo conceives this work at a social moment when energy takes hold in Mexico and the world, finding favor with an audience that helped spread and accept her work in galleries and museums.
Within a totally cosmic atmosphere, Remedios Varo shows her close relationship with the universe, from which she subtly draws creative energy to enhance it consciously and become a co-creator of her reality and world. In this painting, we see a slender being that stars in the scene. Sitting at an octagonal desk, focused on her action, her face denotes tranquility and joy in what she is doing. Her hybrid appearance of bird and human is harmonious, and due to its delicacy, it can be said to be feminine. From her neck hangs a musical instrument like a pendant that rests over her heart. It is a singular guitar-violin from whose center a flexible brush emerges, with which she details a small bird that rises from the paper, extending its wings, preparing to fly away from the place where it was created. The female-bird protagonist also uses a triangular artifact that connects directly with the light from the outer space to obtain raw materials; colors and light for her creations. The birds, freed from the paper, fly both outside and inside the room, where without any concern they peck crumbs in clear harmony and peace with their surroundings. The interior and exterior spaces in this painting interact all the time. In the character that processes the colors, in the triangle-magnifier that enhances energy, in the brush that through the musical instrument makes us think is connected to the very interior of this woman-bird.
An interesting symbolic element is the water, which we can see jumping from one vase to another in the corner of the room, representing the continuous movement of emotions. Although they are in specific containers, they oxygenate by jumping from one to another to avoid stagnation or spillage. Another element is the triangle, symbol of perfect balance, of the trinity of spirit, mind, and body, or of science, art, and religion. It is through this triangle that the character connects the universe with her creation. The position with the tip pointing upwards speaks to us of protection, of a cap of light of cosmic psychic energy that allows health and healing in what it directs; in the painting, it is what gives life to the drawn birds. The number three is present in this representation of creation; 3 rays of light, 3 strings on the musical instrument, 3 colors, 3 conduits of paint, 3 legs of the cosmic color processor. Likewise; the 8 sides of the desk symbolize the infinite movement of the universe.
The birds that come to life and transit through the room tell us that what we create has action both inside and outside our reality. In this case, harmony is maintained in the interaction with nature and with the universe, creating with love. Our creations are similar to our being.
The Remedios Varo Collection
The case of the Remedios Varo collection is quite interesting. In the year 2000, Walter Gruen donated his collection of works by Remedios Varo to the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico. Most of these works were legally purchased from private collectors who had in turn acquired them legally in galleries. They were declared a Mexican artistic monument on December 26, 2001.
Through a strange judicial movement, endorsed by judges María Margarita Gallegos López and Rebeca Pujol Rosas, in that year Spanish Beatriz María Varo Jiménez, niece and also painter, was declared by the Tenth Thirteenth Family Court in the Federal District of Mexico as the sole and universal executor of her aunt Remedios Varo’s estate.
In March 2005, the National Institute of Fine Arts appeals the ruling, which is temporarily suspended while higher judicial instances review the strange case.
It is worth noting that during her life, the painter sold or gifted most of her works, stating that what mattered most to her was the creative process, not the works themselves; which, upon ceasing to belong to her, also, according to the law, ceased to be part of her inheritance.
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