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Francisco Toledo
20th century
(Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1940 - 2019, Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico)
Born 1940, Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico; active 1957–1960, Mexico City; 1960–1965, Paris; 1965–1981, Oaxaca, Mexico; 1981–1983, New York; 1983–present, Cuernavaca, Mexico - Mexico City - Oaxaca Toledo’s work disrupts the boundaries erected by traditional art discourses that distinguish between "high" and "low" art and separate traditional artistic expression from the contemporary. He fuses pre-Columbian symbolism with allusions to works by modern artists like Paul Klee and Rufino Tamayo and modern writers such as Franz Kafka, creating fabulous universes where human and animal worlds merge.
20th century
(Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1940 - 2019, Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico)
Born 1940, Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico; active 1957–1960, Mexico City; 1960–1965, Paris; 1965–1981, Oaxaca, Mexico; 1981–1983, New York; 1983–present, Cuernavaca, Mexico - Mexico City - Oaxaca Toledo’s work disrupts the boundaries erected by traditional art discourses that distinguish between "high" and "low" art and separate traditional artistic expression from the contemporary. He fuses pre-Columbian symbolism with allusions to works by modern artists like Paul Klee and Rufino Tamayo and modern writers such as Franz Kafka, creating fabulous universes where human and animal worlds merge.
Artist Objects
![Image of Chapuline tocando harpa [Grasshopper Playing Harp]](/Media/Thumbnails/ART New/1982/1982.1185.png)
![Image of Animales, or Caballero de los alacranes [Animals, or Horseman of the Scorpions], from untitled portfolio](/Media/Thumbnails/ART New/1982/1982.1235.15-20.png)
![Image of La vaca de mil cubetas [The Cow of a Thousand Pails]](/Media/Thumbnails/ART New/1974/P1974.4.3.png)
![Image of Chapulines [Grasshoppers]](/Media/Thumbnails/ART New/1975/P1975.23.5.png)
![Image of Zapato y sapos [Shoe and Toads]](/Media/Thumbnails/ART New/1977/1977.115.png)