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Muse of the Park Bench (2022) Drawing by Edwin Loftus
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Drawing,
Pastel
on Paper
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Dimensions
21.5x15 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 17in, Width 11in - Framing This artwork is framed (Frame + Under Glass)
- Categories Drawings under $5,000 Symbolism Nude
This shows a nude female sitting on a typical park bench of wooden cross pieces and cement uprights. It is set on or near a grass lawn with trees beyond that.
Though, in keeping with Academy style, I drew this with cross-sectional shading, in this case I decided to override that with pigment application that flows vertically along the lengths of the elements of the human physique in order to emphasize her ethereal nature.
As a muse, she is an embodiment of an idea, in this case, the inspiration that may arise in the process of sitting on a park bench, an occupation contradictory of anything but contemplation, observation and probably a bit of recuperation.
The nude in art can symbolize many things. In this case, (and most cases in which a context like this plays an important role), that is not the physical desirability of the female body, (as in erotic imagery). Rather it is the transcendence of the physical into the spiritual or theoretical realm of existence, (as in the case of a "muse"). The female is traditionally perceived, (from Plato to the present, rightly or wrongly), as the purer essence of the sense of humanity as the gender more grounded in the spiritual aspects of that definition and less involved in the baser, material motivations that often are associated, (rightly or wrongly), with males.
In the post-modernist context of today, just the use of such references poses a challenge to the dictates of the authoritarian establishment that dominates too much of the creative/expressive element in civilization and seeks to reduce art to a system for suppressing original thought in a regime of esoteric and ill-reasoned, and therefore intellectually impotent theories.
Making and displaying such art is a gentler and more subtle way of spitting in the eye of the oligarchs and autocrats that think their dominance of technology gives them the means to relegate the rest of humanity to a puppet-class under their control.
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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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