Eolo Pons
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Eolo Pons
Born 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentinean painter Eolo Pons studied from 1935-38 in the studio of the influential Argentine painter and teacher Lino Anea Spilimbergo (1896-1964). Among Pons' fellow students was his close friend figurative painter Leopoldo Presas (1915). Subsequently, Eolo Pons worked in the printmaking studio of Surrealist graphic artists Jose Planas Casas (1900-1960), Juan Batlle Planas (1911-1966) and Pompeyo Audivert (1900-1977).
Eolo Pons' work is sometimes associated with that of his philosophical mentor Carlos Giambiagi (1887-1965), a native of Uruguay who was known for his writings on art and aesthetics and for his small paintings of the region of Misiones in Argentina. From 1958-1964, together with indigenous painter Medardo Pantoja (1906-1976), Jorge Gnecco (1914-1965), and Luis Pellegrini (1911-?), Eolo Pons established and taught at Provincial Fine Arts School of Jujuy in the Andean northwest of Argentina.
Tightly structured with carefully orchestrated color, Eolo Pons' landscapes, cityscapes and figurative works evoke, rather than describe, the nature and culture of his native Argentina. Eolo Pons' paintings and drawings retain the influence of Surrealism.
