Art, Religion, Science, Politics and Finance

" Second Wave" © F.Licsko 08 36"x48" oil on canvas
In the time of Michaelangelo and Da Vinci, painting was a mixture of religion and art, and that was because religion ruled the arts, philosophy, and science. With the age of reason, the men of science dislodged religion from its dominant rule, and gave birth to a new system that allows the development of our selves, our talents, our intelligence, our skills, and they called the system Democracy. In my painting I investigate the results of looking at science through the eyes of art, exploring the mysticism that seems to arise from reason and facts, plus inspiration and imagination . Analysis is the source and language of science, and emotion is the source and language of art. So I consider my paintings a mix of emotion and modern intellect, which gives rise to a contemporary spiritual work that uses and glorifies the discoveries of science, symbolizing the way it influences our thinking, our way of life, and our society. This second wave is a distinctly different one from the first, whose main concern was religion; ours concerns itself with creating a technology whose pass word is convenience, not blind devotion whose way of life was labour of the the peasant at the bottom and the men of devotion, the cathedral builder at the top.
One without the other... just a thought ...
Religion without science - superstition...
Science without religion - brute force ...
Art without philosophy - meaningless ...
Science without art - technology without design...
Art without beauty - junk...
Politics without ethics - self serving and greedy ...
Finance without ethics - crime...