{"id":52625,"date":"2023-01-24T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/?p=52625\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:29:36","slug":"the-life-and-art-of-fernando-menezes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/en\/the-life-and-art-of-fernando-menezes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life and Art of Fernando Menezes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photography:<\/strong>\u00a0RR<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Born in Mozambique on Christmas Day 1946, Fernando Jos\u00e9 de Sim\u00f5es e Menezes would come to be better known in the artistic world simply as Fernando Menezes, a painter with deep connections to Ericeira, where he died in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>In December 1997, Casa da Cultura Jaime Lobo e Silva hosted an exhibition of his work \u2013 it is precisely the digitization of the catalog of this exhibition (carried out by Pedro Cris\u00f3stomo) that serves as the basis for this article, in which, in addition to the photogallery, we took the opportunity to leave a brief biography of the Artist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52492 colorbox-52625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"1678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17.jpg 1144w, https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17-1047x1536.jpg 1047w, https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17-600x880.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ericeiramag.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Menezes-17-395x580.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between 1980 and 1990 he edited several series of postcards with his serigraphs illustrating Ericeira&#8217;s historic monuments.<\/p>\n<p>The aesthetics of his painting are strongly influenced by Iberian surrealism, in particular Juan Mir\u00f3 and Salvador Dali.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photogallery and brief biography of the Painter with a wide connection with Ericeira.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":52495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dna","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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