This is a painting by the Spanish surrealist painter Remedios Varo. She isn’t very famous but I find her work to be a lot more interesting than that of Salvador Dali. Dali supposedly made his painting by holding keys as he was falling asleep, so that right as he fell asleep, he would drop them and wake up. He would then paint whatever he saw in his dreams. Supposedly he thought the imagery would give us a window into the subconscious, but after looking at his paintings for long periods of time, many of them seem like little more than pretty fantasy. Varo, on the other hand, thought out her work deliberately, usually combining themes of science, music, and philosophy, showing their interplay. I think this painting is perhaps supposed to show how ones imagination alters ones reality when they are reading a novel.
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