Painter Francesc Todó (Tortosa, 1922 - Les Borges del Camp, 2016), died the last 20th of November. He was closely linked to EINA since its creation, where he worked as a drawing, silkscreen, lithography and watercolor professor among others. Elegant in his person and his painting, he was a modern artist yet balanced, perhaps continuing...
Painter Francesc Todó (Tortosa, 1922 - Les Borges del Camp, 2016), died the last 20th of November. He was closely linked to EINA since its creation, where he worked as a drawing, silkscreen, lithography and watercolor professor among others. Elegant in his person and his painting, he was a modern artist yet balanced, perhaps continuing the civic legacy of the best part of “noucentisme” corrected by a slight irony and a fresh pop spirit.
Apart from EINA, He had a close relationship with design. He worked as a graphic designer for Frontis, a printing office that he founded in 1956 with the poet Joaquim Horta and Josep Maria Castellet. Around 1960, he did a very special work claimed by the intellectuals of the time, from Oriol Bohigas to Cirici and that inspired poets like Jaime Gil de Biedma, Salvador Espriu, José Agustín Goytisolo or Pere Quart. From the influence of Paul Klee and Saul Steinberg, he made a schematic and lyrical figuration that surrounded the topic of the work machine, before returning to the both domestic and Arcadian reconstruction of the Mediterranean landscape.
Along with his great friends Albert Rafols-Casamada and Maria Girona, Francesc Todó is one of the leaders of the culture of our country in the second half of the twentieth century. But most of all, he is a loved and deeply linked person to the history of EINA.
