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peter robinson fine art

peter robinson fine art

landscape, still-life, and abstract painting

Tag: Diogenes

The painter

Oil colour on 12 oz cotton canvas, 48 x 36″, completed Oct 17 2017 In the ancient world (as in … More

artist, Diogenes, fool, honest man?, Impressionism, Impressionist, painter, Piette, Pissarro, plein air, poor, unrecognised

Evolution…

Oil on cotton canvas, 36 x 36″, March-April 2017 Began life as an abstract set of lines and colours, evolved … More

abstract, ambiguity, Cynic philosopher, Diogenes, Francis Bacon parody, fresco, idealised figure, oil painting, Raphael, rough brushwork, School of Athens, steps

Study for Pissarro’s dream…

Oil on cotton canvas, 24 x 24″, March 2017

anarchist, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet!, city, Cynic, daylight, Diogenes, dreamscape, honest man?, idealistic, Impressionist, lantern, Pissarro, romantic

Pissarro’s dream of Diogenes – work in earliest stages of progress – an initial study in grisaille for an allegorical painting in which Camille Pissarro, an anarchist as well as an Impressionist, gazes upon a utopian society…

Oil on canvas, 36 x 24″, work in progress…

allegory, anarchist, art, Athens, Camille Pissarro, Diogenes, dream, grisaille, Impressionist, isles of the blessed, legend, myth, painting, Paris, Pissarro, pithos, republic, society, tub, utopia, utopian, wallet

Study for a portrait of Diogenes of Sinope the Cynic philosopher as a kouros walking away from the world

Oil on canvas panel, 24 x 18″, March 2017

ancient Greece, ancient world, art, Athens, Corinth, Cynic philosopher, Diogenes, fluted columns, Greece, kouros, painting, sculpture, Sinope

Study for a group portrait of three ancient Athenian philosophers, (from left to right, Antisthenes, Socrates, and Diogenes,) oil on canvas panel, 24 x 18″, March 2017

Agora, Antisthenes, Athens, Ceramicus, Cynics, Cynosarges, Diogenes, dog-philosophers, rough cloak, School of Athens, Socrates, staff, wallet
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