Man with metal helmet (The dreamer). Oil on canvas on board. 30,5x40 cm. 2024 Speculative history Manuel Fernández's artistic practice recovers the genre of historical painting to explore the memory of the visual representation of power. He uses fictitious historical images generated by artificial intelligence as a starting point for a series of precise classical oil paintings with old masters technique that call into question the historical narrative on which we build our reality. #manuelfernandez #painting #conceptualpainting #oilpainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #postfigurative #artcollector #oiloncanvaspainting #oiloncanvas #portrait #portraitpainting #artdealer #artmarket #artadvisor #artcollectors #historicalpainting #figurativepaintings #figurativepainting #realism