The painter Óscar Manuel Palazon Domínguez was born at San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. In 1927 he was sent on business with his sister and her husband, the painter Álvaro Farina, to Paris, where they were to take charge of the export of fruit of their father’s firm. In Paris Domínguez became acquainted with the representatives of avant-garde and Surrealism, particularly André Breton. The years from 1929 to 1938 may be considered the high point of his Surrealist output when he painted many works inspired by the vegetation of the Canary Islands, and also featuring volcanoes, caves, arrows, lions and bulls. The period culminated with a series of works using the technique of decalcomania. In the years 1938−1939 his paintings featured volcanic landscapes and landscapes evoking human internal organs. In the period 1942−1943 his works were influenced by Giorgio de Chirico. Domínguez made use of idiosyncratic symbolism: clocks, revolvers and photographic cameras, which he placed in strange landscapes.