Eolo Pons

Who is Eolo Pons?

Eolo Pons was an Argentine painter.

Eolo Pons was born in Buenos Aires. He studied from 1935-38 in the studio of the influential Argentine painter and teacher Lino Enea Spilimbergo; among Pons' fellow students were his close friends figurative painters Leopoldo Presas and Luis Lusnich. Subsequently, Eolo Pons worked in the printmaking studio of Surrealist graphic artists Jose Planas Casas, Juan Batlle Planas and Pompeyo Audivert.

Eolo Pons' work is sometimes associated with that of his philosophical mentor Carlos Giambiagi, a native of Uruguay who was known for his writings on art and aesthetics and for his small paintings of Misiones Province landscapes. From 1958-1964, together with indigenous painter Medardo Pantoja, Jorge Gnecco, and Luis Pellegrini, Eolo Pons established and taught at the 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.