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Taos Painters: Francisco Zuniga (1912-1998)
Francisco Zuniga was born in Costa Rica to the sculptor Manuel Maria Zuniga in 1912. Zuniga first learned sculpture from his father and then at the School of Fine Arts in San Jose before leaving for Mexico City, where he studied at the Escuela de Talla Directa under Guillermo Ruiz and Oliverio Martinez.
It was at the Escuela de Talla Directa that Francisco Zuniga's style began to develop under the tutelage of the sculptor Oliverio Martinez and the painter Manuel Rodriguez Lozano. Incorporating primitive Aztec forms into the classical style Francisco Zuniga had been taught helped to create a regionalized style, one that focused on the bodies and forms of the natives of Central America. Though Francisco Zuniga did create some abstract pieces, the majority of his work is composed of nudes, generally female, of peasant stock. With scrawny or stocky bodies unfamiliar to classical sculpture, Zuniga expanded the intellectual reach of his work by mixing it with regional ethnographic studies of body type and lifestyle.
Francisco Zuniga Women Chalk Pencil and Watercolor on Paper drawing
Francisco Zuniga, Women, Chalk, Pencil, and Watercolor on Paper, 1966, 19
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