Can art guide man out from greed and folly?

Can art guide man out from greed and folly?

"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed." - Gautama Buddha

Dr Abe V Rotor

1. Global Warming and Forest Fire

Global Warming and Forest Fire in acrylic by AV Rotor

There's irony in art: one said, it's beautiful;

     I like the bright color, said another;

It is as if it were real, a critic commented;

     but what's the message, brother?

One asked if I painted it right on-the-spot;

     a child thought it was by imagination;

a man was furious: who burned the forest? 

     blaming one and the whole nation. 

Calmly I said, it's an effect of global warming,

      and man's folly plus the phenomenon; 

 art takes the lead, to break man's indifference,

      to guide him out of the unknown. ~  

2. A New Beginning After 

Nature comes back to life in acrylic by AV Rotor

A corner of Eden rises from the ashes,

left by her guardian long ago;

the birds return, clouds form into rain,

a miracle, man will never know.

And nature in silence keeps working,

forests, fields across the valley,

 resurrect best in the absence of man, 

 not in his art in greed and folly. ~