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Óscar Domínguez was a Spanish artist best known for his loosely rendered Surrealist paintings. Influenced by avant-garde European painters such as René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, and Yves Tanguy, he employed bizarre subject matter to great effect.
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He then frequented some art schools, and visited galleries and museums. He was rapidly attracted by avant-garde painters, notably Yves Tanguy and Pablo Picasso, whose influences were visible in his first works. At 25 he painted a self-portrait full of premonition as he showed himself with a deformed hand and with the veins of his arm cut.
Óscar Domínguez was a surrealist painter who spent most of his working life in France. He was born in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (most often referred to as La Laguna) on the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands in 1906.
Óscar M. Domínguez (January 3, 1906 – December 31, 1957) was a surrealist painter of Spanish origins, born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island, Tenerife. He suffered a serious illness at a young age which affected his growth and caused deformation in his limbs and facial bone frame.
Oscar Domínguez. Nostalgia of Space. 1939. Image not available.
Domínguez began to paint surrealist works from 1932, although his first exhibitions date from 1928. In 1934, he joined the group of surrealists led by André Breton, who got him the nickname of 'the dragon tree of the Canaries' and described him as 'the fiery and fragrant whistle of the Canary Islands'.
