A DECENT HOUSING FOR DIOGENES Painting

Diogenes was born in Sinope, a Greek colony on the Turkish coast of the Black Sea, on 412 a.C. and died in a unclairarly way in Corinth on 326 a.C. He was the precursor of all the modern anti-consumerism movements. He preached a life-style very sheer and natural, in the complete poverty and depriving himself of all the unnecessary objects. He sleept in a barrel and he walked around on the street holding a lit lantern on his hands, saying that he was looking for an honest man. He owned just a wooden bowl, of which he got rid the day he saw a child drinking water in a fountain with his own hands. His philosophical school was called “Cynism”, a word coming from the Greek “Kynicos”, that is the adjective form of “Kyon”, that in Greek means “Dog”. That was because the Cynics walked around in Athens stray, free and wild like the dogs. By this painting I wish to pay tribute to the figure of Diogenes and to his radical ethics and earlier anti-capitalist. So that he can spend decorously his old age, I gift him a small house painted in cerulean blue: the colour of the sky and the sea, the colour of the free and infinite spaces.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35.4 W x 51.2 H x 0 D in

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