Remedios Varo

[Monte Davis]

This is the one that keeps coming to my mind during the "science =
wizardry" passages of M&D and AtD (Emerson, Vanderjuice, Tesla usw)

http://jungcurrents.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/varo-fenomeno.jpg

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> For some newbies to the list, know that a painting by
> this female artist is alluded to and used thematically in The Crying of
> Lot 49.
>
>  [just occurred: does Pynchon ever 'allude' without
> thematic meaning? Even Shakespeare seems to sometimes.]
>
> I went through the National Museum of Women in the Arts in
> Wash, D.C. yesterday, which has two of her pictures in the permanent
> collection. Both of them---no,I did not take notes but should have---
> are Pynchonian or Escher-like in playing with physics and metaphysical
> concepts within the painting; as the painting
> ....one is 'on space and time' via a kind of lens
> look within the regular frame.....
>
> One can see, along with the 'surreal' elements, Pynchon's youthful
> resonance with.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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