A keen user of the painting technique decalcomania.

Until the Kingdom of Castile’s conquest, the place where San Cristóbal de La Laguna is built belonged to the one of nine aboriginal Guanche kingdoms on the island. Recently, after a survey, La Laguna was listed as the city with the best reputation in the Canary Islands (third provincial capital city of Spain, with the best reputation). The second Sunday of July is celebrated the Romería de San Benito Abad, an event which involves groups coming from all corners of the archipelago, it’s a pilgrimage that is considered the most representative of the Canary Islands. Among its important historical figures, were Amaro Pargo (one of the famous corsairs of the Golden Age of Piracy), José de Anchieta (Catholic saint and missionary) and Oscar Dominguez (surrealist painter).

He was born into a January, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna (on the island of Tenerife), becoming surrealist painter. OSCAR DOMINGUEZ spent his youth with his grandmother in Tacoronte, devoteing himself to painting at a young age, after suffering a serious illness that had caused a deformation of his bones. He went to Paris, where he worked for his father in the central market of Les Halles (spending his nights in cabarets). He frequented some art schools, visiting galleries and museums. He was attracted by avant-garde painters (such as Tanguy and Picasso), whose influences were visible in his first works. He also painted a self-portrait as he showed himself with with the veins of his arm cut. He chose to kill himself 27 years later, by cutting his veins.

He used a technique called decalcomania (a transfer process developed for engravers around 1750), that shifts paint from thin sheets of glass onto canvas or paper. Best known for his Surrealist paintings influenced by avant-garde European painters, he employed bizarre subject matter to great effect. The 1930s were an incredibly important period for Surrealism, and this is when he really made a name for himself. Tragically, OSCAR DOMINGUEZ committing suicide on a December day, in Paris. His works are in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. https://www.museobilbao.com/

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