Hiding Nude (2020) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

Pastel on Paper, 5.5x5.5 in
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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Drawing, Pastel on Paper
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In a rural setting, a young woman suns herself, nude, behind the shelter of a group of boulders. She hears a man and his dogs passing on the nearby path and recognizes that the dogs could sense her presence and lead the man to her. It is a moment of suspense, will she be "caught" naked? Will it be someone she knows? She does not anticipate any penalty [...]
In a rural setting, a young woman suns herself, nude, behind the shelter of a group of boulders. She hears a man and his dogs passing on the nearby path and recognizes that the dogs could sense her presence and lead the man to her. It is a moment of suspense, will she be "caught" naked? Will it be someone she knows? She does not anticipate any penalty greater than embarrassment, but the potential for something worse exists and she cannot completely dismiss it.
She has learned to live with this kind of concern and not let it control her life and it should be pointed out that all men also live with the risk that they will encounter one of the too many predators among us, (though women face a much greater burden).
In this 'light of reality' this becomes more than a nude woman at risk of being embarrassed. It presents a situation that calls on us to question our tolerance of the people among us that are as much a threat as hunting beasts, natural hazards, diseases, infections and all the million things that can and do harm us.
Why must we live with the human predators that have not matured into the "humane" prerequisite to being a human? When will we stop tolerating this danger among us and do more to lessen this risk?
But there is more to this because humans are complex creatures that evolve as individuals through the course of their lives, because evildoers have become good in our shared experience, and because by mischance and evil deed, innocent humans have been mistaken for predators before. How do we deal more effectively with the guilty while still protecting the innocent?
I do not have answers to these questions. As a representational artist, my role is to raise these questions, it is for each of us as an individual to answer them and ask and answer all of those other many questions related to them. It is through this process we generate and modify our own opinions and through sharing our views with others, we create and constantly recreate the foundations of civilization.
In a few paragraphs of reflection this image has expanded in implication from the simple question: Why is it tolerable that this woman feels insecure just because she isn't clothed? It has become thousands of questions and factors to be considered to reach the point where that simple question can be intelligently considered, let alone answered.

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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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