![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes, when she looks in the mirror, she has the feeling that lily flowers have been engraved on her face. She has had an easy life, I mean she has never lacked for anything, but she doesn’t remember the last time she laughed heartily. The afternoon sun illuminates the orange-yellow room. Of all the men who passed through her life, only one asked her to drop everything and start painting.įor many years, when she finishes her work she sits in the same chair, in front of the window. Men acted and women watched and Remedios was nothing more than a woman surrounded by men, men who, in their stubborn desire to change the order of things, did not contemplate the possibility of treating her as an equal. However, shaking up the cultural and social world did not include conceiving of women as artists in their own right. The world of dreams, chance, hallucination, theories of the subconscious, the mystery of the unusual, and transgression were the main pillars of a cultural revolt featuring writers, thinkers and artists who proclaimed themselves rebels. The provocation was the means and the end. ![]() ![]() The artistic movement Remedios became a part of was called Surrealism, a subversive movement that sought to influence the order and morality of the traditional middle classes through provocation. ![]()
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