Remedios Varo was a Spanish surrealist artist known for her dreamlike paintings featuring cool colors, distorted objects, and unrealistic scales. One of her paintings, Celestial Pablum from 1958, depicts a sad woman feeding the moon, which is locked in a cage, as it eats. Stars and stairs are in the background along with a chimney, tower, mincer, stool and table. Surrealist art like Varo's aims to surprise viewers with imaginative dream imagery rather than realistic depictions.

1. REMEDIOS VARO
REMEDIOS
VARO

2. REALISTIC ART:
It shows real-life images.
Odessa Port. Kankinsky, 1898

3. ABSTRACT ART:
-It doesn’t show real-life images.
-It focuses on expressing emotions
Using:
LINES
SHAPES
COLOURS
On the points. Kankinsky, 1928

4. SURREALIST ART:
-Element of surprise.
-Dream like imagery.
-Cool colours.
-Distorted objects.
-Unrealistic scales.
Son of man. René Magritte, 1964

5. SURREALIST ART:
-Element of surprise.
-Dream like imagery.
-Cool colours.
-Distorted objects.
-Unrealistic scales.
The persistence of memory. Salvador Dalí, 1931

6. SURREALIST ART:
-Element of surprise.
-Dream like imagery.
-Cool colours.
-Distorted objects.
-Unrealistic scales.
Celestial Pablum. Remedios Varo, 1958

7. DESCRIBING A PAINTING
The title of this painting is Celestial Pablum. It’s by
Remedios Varo. She painted it in the twentieth
century in 1958.
In this painting a woman is feeding the Moon.
The woman is wearing a dark brown dress. She’s
feeling sad.
The Moon is eating locked in a cage.
There are some stars and stairs in the picture. There
is a chimney, a tower, a mincer, a stool and a table.
This painting makes me feel nostalgic because of the
dream like imagery.

8. NAME: Remedios Varo
BIRTH DATE: 16/12/1908.
NATIONALITY: Spanish.
COUNTRIES: Spain, France and Mexico.
JOB: Surrealist artist.
PLACE and YEAR OF DEATH: Mexico, 1963.

9. Creation of the birds
Harmony Tortous ways
Towards the Tower
Embroidering the
Earth’s Mantle
The Escape
Spiral Transit

10. 1957

11. 1957

12. 1958

14. 1960

15. 1961

16. 1961

17. 1962

18. Creation of the birds
1957

19. 1957
Harmony

20. 1958
Tortous ways

22. 1960
Towards the Tower

23. 1961
Embroidering the
Earth’s Mantle

24. 1961
The Escape

25. 1962
Spiral Transit