Remedios Varo

[David Ewers]

Cool.  Thanks.  I dig Remedios Varo.

On Feb 8, 2015, at 5:14 AM, Mark Kohut 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.
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