Tecla Tofano

Tecla Tofano (1927 in Naples, Italy – 1995 in Caracas, Venezuela)[1] was an Italian-born Venezuelan artist, ceramicist, and writer active from the 1950s until her death. Tofano studied ceramics and enamel with Miguel Arroyo at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Applicadas (School of Fine and Applied Arts, Caracas), alongside fellow students and ceramicists, Cristina Merchán and Reyna Herrera.[1] A member of the cooperative Forma Veinte (Form Twenty), her works garnered wide acclaim, and she became known for her controversial, political, and feminist imagery.

  1. ^ a b Diccionario biográfico de las artes visuales en Venezuela (PDF) (in Catalan). Caracas: Fundación Galería de Arte Nacional. 2005. pp. 1294–1296. ISBN 980-6420-18-7. Retrieved August 13, 2022.

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