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Francisco Toledo (1940)

Aliases: Francisco (1940) Toledo

Professions: Painter; Sculptor

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    Francisco Toledo (N. 1940)

    Francisco Toledo (N. 1940)

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    Cangrejo

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    Francisco Toledo (Mexican B. 1940)

    Francisco Toledo (Mexican B. 1940)

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    FRANCISCO TOLEDO (B. 1940)

    FRANCISCO TOLEDO (B. 1940)

Francisco Toledo Biography

(b Juchitán, Oaxaca, 17 July 1940). Mexican painter, sculptor, textile designer, printmaker and collector. He grew up in an area that was rich in legends, rites and beliefs springing from a strong rural tradition predating the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He began to draw and paint at a very early age, studying first in Oaxaca, where he produced linocuts in the graphic workshop run by Arturo García Bustos (b 1926). In 1957 he moved to Mexico City to attend the Escuela de Diseño y Artesanía of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. After holding his first one-man shows of gouaches and prints in 1959 in Fort Worth, TX, and Mexico City, he moved in 1960 to Paris, where until 1963 he studied printmaking under Stanley William Hayter. While continuing to work within western traditions, he became interested in the art of oriental cultures and in ancient Mexican art, especially in those forms that were not officially sanctioned. In his attitude towards the sustaining inspiration of traditions he was particularly close to Paul Klee.

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