Remedios Varo’s The Call is a beautiful Surrealist painting. Varo was deeply interested in the occult, mysticism, magic, astrology, witchcraft, and more, and she explored these ideas alongside close friends like Leonora Carrington while they lived in Mexico City. Varo and Carrington were both artists who had fled Europe during the chaos of war. Varo escaped both the Spanish Civil War and World War II, fleeing to Mexico in 1941.