A Song of Ossian (2020) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

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Legend tells that when Saint Patrick arrived in Ireland he and his entourage came to an old blind bard singing by the side of a road. Patrick approached him and told him about Jesus and the promise of salvation. The bard is said to have answered, "Well that's a fine story and I thank you for sharing it. But I have a story as well, now listen." He began [...]
Legend tells that when Saint Patrick arrived in Ireland he and his entourage came to an old blind bard singing by the side of a road. Patrick approached him and told him about Jesus and the promise of salvation. The bard is said to have answered, "Well that's a fine story and I thank you for sharing it. But I have a story as well, now listen." He began to sing and sang on and on of the lore of ancient Ireland before the coming of the Romans. When he was done, Saint Patrick went on his way, neither man convinced by the other.
The bard's name was Ossian and in the 19th Century he became one of the most celebrated figures of ancient history. A scholar of musicology named, James MacPherson returned after traveling the Irish hinterlands gathering old songs and poetry from the native singers. He published these in a collection that became the fourth most popular book of the 19th Century, (The Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, and The Martyrs, being 1,2,and 3). Lincoln, Napoleon and almost every other prominent figure read it repeatedly. Partly, it introduced Metric Verse. But also it introduced a social order and morality not based on the concepts of good and evil. Its influence can be seen in Wagner and Nietzsche's work and eventually, in Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism.
Ossian may have been real. Other musicologists documented a body of songs attributed to him. But they challenged MacPherson's work's legitimacy. HE was taken to court and the court ruled that he'd made most of it up. To his death MacPherson denied that he'd committed fraud and near his death stated, "I am either telling the truth or I am the greatest liar and most brilliant poet of our time."
Here Ossian plays while various fairies, Leprechauns and an Irish Elk, gather to listen.

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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 [...]

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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