Art and History, Ioan Bompa, Painter - ibooksquare.ro

”The painter appeared from nowhere. Like he had travelled from a parallel universe
or from another time. It was the time of the artists and warriors, when legends
walked among mortals undisguised. He laughed at me as if he had seen the
beginning of all things and since then he wondered like a pilgrim. And then I saw the
legends with my own eyes, but painted through his. „Nothing is by chance,
remember, my friend!” and he handed me his notebook. „I am Ioan Bompa, I am a
painter.” says he, as he set next to me. I opened it and there I saw all the mighty
Gods, I saw the sin and the pleasure, I saw the redemption of a lost world, a mad
world, blind but searching for the light. It was a small notebook, but when I have
opened it I stepped into Dante's Inferno. My hands started to tremble as I was
turning the pages. I looked at him and he was smiling like Merlin. „I am not the Devil,
you know. The Devil doesn't have a sense of humor! and he laughed heartily, as he,
The Maestro, had known that nothing really matters but the act of creation itself.”     Teodor Deac, writer