Original artwork description:

In a dark ritual room, the magician summoned a demon from the triangle of manifestation and the demon began to talk about the past and the future, about the creation of the world and about the place of man in it, appearing in a phantasmagoric company of visions. The figure of the magician, symbolizing hidden secret brotherhoods that prefer neutral contemplation of the course of history, stands in a protective circle and closes himself with a magic disk, like a shield, from the harmful breath of the demon - a talking head. The demon speaks of war and the need for a bloody revolution, as a necessity, introducing himself as a wise philosopher, theologian, political scientist. Behind the magician, outside the protective circle, sits a vision, a donkey-student with large ears and a human face - a vision of virginal youth, naively absorbing the poisons of misanthropy, sacrifice of life for an idea. For the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy, but to the victim he appears in an acceptable form, caressing the ego of the recruit-donkey. The woman on the cat is a symbol of carelessness, hedonism, the joyful game of life; nations pampered by luxury, not knowing the threat. It also hints that the world is a big circus performance for distraction, where behind the fun, like this gymnast on the cat, the rulers sparkle crimes and true, bloodthirsty intentions in the form of a huge genie, whose tongue is always snake-like, forked, because it speaks half-truths, which here acquired the form of the legendary double sword ...

Materials used:

oil

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