Art Intifada

November 30, 2009 – 11:43 pm

Michelangelo’s David – spectacular, man-made masterpiece
Blue footed boobies in Galapagos – make David, look like sculpted rock.
Mozart’s finest symphonies – man-made, music masterpieces
Sound of baby Robins chirping – make Mozart… sound fabricated.

Artists throughout the ages – seemingly, succeed in portraying Nature’s beauty
Venus in the midnight sky… reminds them, they are humble attempts at plagiarism.
Humanity tries to capture newly opened rosebuds – in painting, fabric and poetry
The heart’s rapture is seen in masterpieces… the perfume, however, is absent.

Better to make great works of art – than war – better to plagiarize nature – to remind
Suffering humanity, that tortures the rest of life – along with torturing each other,
That we are surrounded by beauty… we can have the perfume – instead of war.

That is what artists are pointing to… beauty, that cannot be fully captured.
So life-like, one forgets – they are paintings, sculptures and instruments – momentarily
Masters of art… servants of the Unseen Artist – that makes roses, with the perfume present.

Uri Gopher - Istikbal (English & Hebrew Subtitles)