Remedios Varo

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, one of the two I saw.....

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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