A native of San Sebastián, painter Francisco Rodón was born in 1934. He studied at Academia Julien, Paris; Academia de San Fernando, Madrid; Academia La Esmeralda, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico; Art Students League, NY; and Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña's Taller de Gráfica under the guidance Lorenzo Homar.

During the 60's, when the art world was trying to keep up with what was fashionable, Rodón continues his individual exploration, introspective, and immune to fashion, and other superfluous influenced of the decade. His work has been mostly figurative, where color plays a pivotal part.

His broad use of color, as exemplified in La Maga Duende, pictured on the right, brings the canvas to life and almost pushes the painting of the subject into the real world.

In 1972, he received first prize for painting at III Biennial in Medellín, Colombia. His work includes portraits of important Latin American cultural figures. Rodón's technique is based on the painting of blotches, which he combines with other colors. His work has been regarded as some of the most important in Latin America, and is part of private and public collections worldwide.

There have been several individual exhibitions of his work: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1961; Museo de la Universidad de PR, various occasions; Centro de Convenciones, San Juan, 1980; Museo de Arte de Ponce, 1984; and Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, 1987.