Echo de Paix de fraternité depuis la planète Arc en Ciel (2022) Painting by Coco Sicart

"Echo of Peace, of Fraternity from the Rainbow Planet" was created by the Artist Coco Sicart inspired by the electric global atmosphere in which we evolve. Coco Sicart staged these 5 global icons who do not belong to a story or a country .... These 5 men and women are between them real diamonds who shine in the firmament with a thousand lights for humanity. It is up to all of us and especially to the young to transmit their messages and perpetuate their works .... 5 men and women with extraordinary destinies who remained faithful to their ideals until the end without ever letting themselves be abused by power despite their global celebrity. The common factor to these 5 living legends was their high moral standing and their unwavering determination to fight for Peace, Fraternity, Solidarity, Freedom, Justice. These 5 icons remain today mythical figures of the end of the 20th century. We can only bow before their messages of peace and their incessant fights which should still find an echo in all our hearts living here below.... Brotherhood and Solidarity are always born from the bowels of SOS and Cries of pain of all living species. The Artist Coco added rhinestones around these 5 icons as if to surround them with light. In this winter period, we can only think of Abbé Pierre who, in the winter of 1954 when temperatures had reached -20° and having found a dead woman in the street, launched a cry of alarm on the airwaves to be heard by politicians: "My friends, help.... A woman has just frozen to death at 3am on the sidewalk, clutching the paper with which she had been expelled.... Fraternal emergency centers must be opened in all the cities of France where we can read these words: "You who are suffering, whoever you are, come in, sleep, eat, regain hope, here we love you". Since then, his fight for Fraternity and Solidarity has never ceased until his death. In 1988, Abbé Pierre created the Abbé Pierre Foundation for housing the underprivileged and to defend the cause of the homeless. In the same spirit, we also think of Restos du Coeur founded by our late and immense and talented artist Coluche. The same fight against poverty, illness, exclusion was brilliantly led by this extraordinary woman that was Mother Teresa, who did not hesitate to leave her convent in Calcutta in India in 1946 to settle in the slums and care for lepers and accompany the dying. She tried the impossible to help the most deprived. Mother Teresa would say on this subject: "Extreme poverty gradually empties man of his Humanity". Her infinite energy allowed her to open schools for poor children and allow them to read and write. In fact, it was faith that animated Mother Teresa's entire life, she knew that the religion of Love was universal. Mother Teresa and Gandhi have the same radical vision of the fundamental evil at the root of all injustices: man must learn not to accumulate superfluous things, man must learn to be content with the little that is necessary to escape oppression and inequality. Man must learn to keep only the essentials to live. We remember Mother Teresa for her life of charity, her benevolent acts, she is inscribed in our hearts as a model of humanity. Gandhi, too, organized campaigns to protest against the colonies that deprived the Indian people of freedom, from 1919. It was in 1930 that Gandhi created the civil disobedience movement which led to mass resignations of Indian civil servants and the colonial administration was well and truly paralyzed. Gandhi's aura still shines when we think back to his exceptional destiny which led 350 million Indians to free themselves from British dependence through resistance and non-violence. As it is said in the Bible: "Let us pursue the things which make for peace and those by which we make one another grow" (Rom.14:19). And then we can only applaud the peaceful fight of Martin Luther King, doctor of theology and pastor of the Baptist church who in 1955, led the boycott of Montgomery buses by the population of color, Martin Luther King was at the head of the efforts deployed to obtain the application of civil rights to blacks through non-violence. As such, Reverend King received the Nobel Peace Prize because he was always at the forefront of the fight for racial equality in the United States. Finally, in the same vein, Nelson Mandela, spiritual son of Martin Luther King and Gandhi, also dreamed like his predecessors of Peace, Liberty, Justice, Equality, Fraternity, despite his 27 years of imprisonment, and succeeded in abolishing decades of state crime. In 1952, Nelson Mandela, from his first black law firm in South Africa, in Johannesburg, launched the "Defiant Campaign", a huge campaign of civil disobedience, and it was in 1960 after the Sharpeville massacre (a day of peaceful demonstration that turned into carnage), that he committed his life. In 1961, Mandela emerged free from a first trial for high treason. In 1964, during the Rivonia trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. Transferred in 1982 to Cape Town, he was released on February 11, 1990. His perseverance paid off and his negotiations with Frederik Deckler, the President of South Africa, gave birth to a new constitution in November 1993 which laid the foundations for racial equality by wiping the slate clean. A month later, the 2 men received the Nobel Peace Prize. Finally, for the first free elections in South Africa, Mandela was elected President on April 27, 1994. When we look at these 5 extraordinary life paths, we see that they are linked to the same values ​​and the same quest for Liberty, Fraternity, Peace, Justice, yes we can write in letters of gold as Mandela said: "Long Walk to Freedom". In conclusion, we only remember one thing: putting people under cover, dividing them, stirring up their fears is a war declared quietly, without noise .... But which claims as many victims as a nuclear bomb ..... Our world is no longer running smoothly and inequalities are growing more and more and as Mother Teresa said so well: "The worst disease is not to have leprosy or tuberculosis, it is to be rejected, despised, abandoned. The greatest poverty is not to have an empty stomach, it is to be loved or desired by no one. " Let us simply hope that this beautiful Rainbow planet inhabited by these 5 precious and luminous icons finds a positive echo on our entire planet and becomes a true model for all nations, by cultivating Peace and abolishing wars ..... Publication of the work on Sunday February 20, 2022.