Frank Licsko’s life began behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Hungary, but he escaped communism for freedom in the West, where he went on to become a professional artist.
Licsko, who now lives on Vancouver Island in B.C., just completed a two-metre homage to American liberty whose centrepiece is Lady Liberty herself. He says what it expresses is something his father would have been killed for expressing in his once-communist homeland.
“To me, man and God meet in the frame of liberty,” Licsko told The Epoch Times, pointing to his oil reproduction of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” comprising the central top part of his pastiche political painting….