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Francesc Todó García, born in Tortosa, Tarragona, in 1922, was a prominent Spanish painter and artist. He studied at the Llotja school in 1942 and marked his exhibition debut at the Sala Viñon in Barcelona in 1946. Throughout his career, he participated in significant artistic events such as the Salones de Octubre, where in 1952 he won the Rosa Vera engraving prize and in 1954 he won the special drawing prize at the Third Jazz Salon.

In 1954, Todó won a scholarship that allowed him to travel through France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Great Britain, while participating in the Salones de Mayo in Barcelona. Throughout his career, he held numerous solo exhibitions in places such as Madrid, Paris, Palma de Mallorca (1962), Bilbao (1966), Valencia (1967), Illinois (1967), among others.

In 1969, he became a professor of painting at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, and also exhibited in Cali and Mexico City. In addition to his work in painting, Todó created stage designs for operas such as Xavier Montsalvatge’s "Una voce in off" (1962) and Joan Oliver’s "Bestiario" (1972). He also ventured into engravings, monotypes and drawings.

Throughout his artistic evolution, Todó started from a conventional post-impressionism to schematize figuration until he reached a painting that represented complex and neat machines, in tune with the advocates of social art. In this genre, he created the murals of the Mutua Metalúrgica in Barcelona in 1959. Later, he evolved towards clearer, plainer and more precise representations, with an intimate and nostalgic character that he generically called "La Catalunya tronadeta".

In recognition of his outstanding career, Francesc Todó García received the Cross of Sant Jordi in 2001.

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