Harmony by a Latin American Artist Remedios Varo

Harmony 1956 by Remedios Varo
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Introduction
Influential is a difficult term. It means storied chronology, reach, and effect. The majority of twentieth-century art history studies exclude Latin American artists. The same is true for well-known female artists. After a lengthy search for the most significant Latin American artists, I came across Remedios Varo, a renowned female American artist known for her work “Harmony.” This painting has served as a standard for illustrating the breadth and depth of Varo’s visual language since it was completed in 1956. This paper poetically depicts “animistic conviction in the power of things and the interconnection between plant, animal, human, and mechanical worlds.” Her fascination with natural phenomena stems from her belief that they encourage us to think about the world in terms of our instincts and spirituality. They reflect a part of our minds that we do not usually know about—the unconscious. According to Adam Sutherland, all humans and animals share the same ancestral DNA; this DNA is invisible and inaccessible to our conscious awareness; it serves as an adaptation mechanism for our psyches to the “human innate pattern and consistencies.” This order is undetectable and unavailable to our cognition, and it is this order that is the “primary factor of human behavior.” According to the author’s nature, amid the rigidity of civilization’s strict regulations, it sometimes refuses to be managed and supervised, flourishing at its rate and in its way. Willette reworked Sigmund Freud’s works for poets and visual artists, claiming that surrealism is an art theory based on a simplified view of Freud’s work. Surrealism spread Freud’s influence on Parisian painters in the 1920s. Remedios Varo’s surrealist painting was one of the most well-known in the movement’s history. Her paintings are inspired by various sources, including medieval history and Greek mythology, scientific research and alchemy, nature, music, and pagan traditions. Varos’ reality is full of fantastical elements, but she portrays this fantastical world objectively. It’s a scientific explanation for the supernatural.[Usaartnews.com. 2020. “The Mystical Scene by Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo Set a World Record.” Usaartnews.Com. July 3, 2020. https://usaartnews.com/auctions/the-mystical-scene-by-spanish-surrealist-remedios-varo-set-a-world-record] [Camilla Sutherland. "Shifting realities: Migration and surreality in the work of Remedios Varo." Opticon1826 13 (2012): 23-32.] [Willette, Jeanne. 2011. “Surrealism and Freudian Theory.” Arthistoryunstuffed.Com. 2011. https://arthistoryunstuffed.com/surrealism-freudian-theory/.] [Sutherland, “Shifting realities,” 23-32]
Description of Harmony 1956
As Varo’s Harmony exhibits, both art and the integrity of the human mind rely on the unconscious. The painting’s most prominent feature, an androgynous alchemist-composer, immediately draws viewers’ attention. To skewer onto a panoramic music sheet, the writer searches a treasure chest for it...