Philip Minehan writes about the monumental latest piece “High winds of change”, 150 x 300 cm, oil on canvas, 2024:
“Fernando’s work has always shown incredible and evocative tensions between forces and forms, internal and external, but also those of the netherworld of the in-between. In this work, I see new forces, new beasts, new saviors and their battles, I see sublime beauty, I see forces that may or may never take shape, however much they may haunt or inspire. I see Goya, I see the granularity of Rubens, and the vigor of Delacroix. I see clear forms of humans and animals that somehow took shape, along with endless wisps of imagination. His title for the work, “High Winds of Change”, speaks to our times and to our vast human experience. Let it put you in touch with both.”
High winds of change 150 x 300 cm, oil on canvas, 2024.
High winds of change 150 x 300 cm, oil on canvas, 2024.
Philip B. Minehan is Lecturer in Liberal Studies, California State University at Fullerton, USA. He was previously part of the history department at University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA, and is the author of Civil War and World War in Europe (2006). Fernando Velazquez has had the honour of designing the cover of two of his books.
