Mario Carreno Morales, was born in 1913, in La Habana, neighborhood Santo Suarez, Cuba, and died in 1999 in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Like so many other artists, he studied in San Alejandro. He left to Spain in 1931, where he was not able to dedicate immediately to painting. He was an associate and owner of a club called " Satan". Graphic designs allowed him to live during those difficult years. In 1935, he left to Mexico, where he worked with great muralists. But it was in Paris, between 1937 and 1939 that he began to exhibit his first successful works. The artistic environment was excellent, surrounded by the same social circles as Picasso and Lam. During the 1940's he moved to New York, where he had severals important exhibitions in Perls Gallery. Thereafter, Carreño flew to Havana with the purpose of creating a new movement with the Duco technique, a technique that was previously influenced by the Mexican muralist master, Alfaros Sequeiros. This artworks were finished on 1943. Not to mention, within this group of artwork that the master Carreño finished on this year with the Duco technique, one of the most outstanding were, Cortadores de Caña, Danza Afrocubana, Fuego en el Batey, and others. In 1957, Carreño went to Chile invited by his friend and writer Pablo Neruda. During this visit he met Ida Gonzalez, which was the secretary of his friend Pablo Neruda at that time. They started a romance that later led to marriage. Pablo Neruda was always amazed of Cuba, its climate, it's beaches, and it's seashells, especially the polimitas. For Mario Carreño Chile was sort of a paradise compared to the overly fast paced reality of New York. When Mario Carreño returned to Paris in 1962,  he was extremely preoccupied and anguished by the possibility of an atomic war. For a long time, he wad traumatize by a fear that pervaded all Europe. From this experience emerged the series, " The Petrified World", which was a protest against war and human suffering. Thereafter, Mario Carreño returned to Chile definitely and continued growing as an talented artist. Culminating with his last period with the surrealism.