zeus working for pension Painting

Oil on canvas ,strong contrast tones, medium texture. Greek God Poseidon or Zeus (there is a scientific debate) bronze sculpture exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is depicted working in a construction site. From the exhibition titled :Price and Prejudice" dedicated to the "debris" of the Greek economy crisis. A Greek folk wisdom says "poverty manipulates the arts". "Symbolic figures carrying the pride,the history, the culture of all western civilization for centuries., interact with the every day reality and with the currently crisis-phobic Greeks. Glorious past, guilty present,uncertain future, they are all being sacrificed on the altar of self-preservation against the international prejudice,but also on the altar of our vanity.Glorified symbols of the past,converse with the uninspired present and the leftovers of an idea, with an honest inconsistency. "