Manuel Millares self-taught art education. In the work of Millares two great epochs can be distinguished: the first spans from the beginning of his work until 1955 and the second begins in that year and ends with his death. The fundamental change takes place around the use of the sacking, in 1955. The most important works of the first stage are the Canarian pictographs. They are the result of their interest in surrealism and the world of archaeology, the deep roots of the disappeared cultures and the Guanche past of the inhabitants of the island.