Flotsam in the Surf (2020) Drawing by Edwin Loftus
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Drawing,
Pastel
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 5.5in, Width 8in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Drawings under $1,000 Symbolism Beach
Sand Dollars, Sea Urchin shells and spines, glass balls escaped from nets in the Sea of Japan, bottles with messages, usually just greetings from a past time and distant land, but sometimes an appeal for assistance from someone lost at sea. Exotic shells and polished stones and pieces of doomed ships. Floating mines adrift since World War Two, shoes still holding the feet they once protected. Driftwood sculpted by nature itself, sometimes great logs from forests in the north, sometimes twisted roots from trees that washed into the sea from the mountains of South America. Toys of children left buried in the sand on some sunny day by children building castles meant to stand before the waves. Mounds of jelly, from creatures ancient before dinosaurs walked the Earth, or vomited by creatures so large that elephants could ride upon their backs.
Greatest of all these finds are the young women, (or men), we find lying on the shore, unmoving if we don't disturb them, appearing to wait for the tide to come in and sweep them out to sea, naked or nearly so, brilliant in their youth and vigor, landed there from some inland world, drawn like the flotsam to the ocean's edge.
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Edwin Loftus is an American painter and draftsman born in 1951. His interest in art began at the age of 4 when he decided to draw something real rather than working from his imagination.
As a child he excelled at drawing and as a teenager he began to experiment with oil painting. In college, he took courses in art and art history and realized that true art had nothing to do with the quality of the drawing or painting, but that it had to have the ambition to push the boundaries and expand the visual experience.
He also studied philosophy, psychology and history and quickly realized that it was just another art establishment trying to defend its elitist industry and reward system. Their skills were almost non-existent, they knew nothing about psychology, perception or stimulus response, and they were extensions of the belief system that made communism, fascism and other forms of totalitarianism such destructive forces in the world. They literally believe that art shouldn't be available to ordinary human beings, but only to an elite "sophisticated" enough to understand it.
Edwin Loftus realized that the emperors of art had no clothes, but they were still the emperors. Gifted in art, he worked hard to acquire this skill. So he found other ways to make a living and sold a few artworks from time to time. For sixty years, many people enjoyed his works and some collected them.
Today, Edwin Loftus is retired. Even if he sold all his paintings for the price he asked, "artist" would be the lowest paid job he ever had... but that's the way it is. It won't matter to him after he dies. He just hopes that some people will like what he does enough to enjoy it in the future.
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Nationality:
UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1951
- Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value,
- Groups: Certified Artists Contemporary American Artists
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