Composition of Primaries, Secondaries, Black and White (2022) Drawing by Edwin Loftus
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Drawing,
Pastel
on Cardboard
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Dimensions
15x21 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 11in, Width 17in - Framing This artwork is framed (Frame + Under Glass)
- Categories Drawings under $5,000 Symbolism Nude
The true history of Art is not the history of its deconstruction into components. It began as components that had not yet risen to the level of a means of more sophisticated communication. Modernism and post modernism are not what Art has been building toward. They are not "Progress," they are manifestations of the opposition to Progress.
Since humanity became numerous enough to make social organization practical, there have been many short-sighted people that have lamented the growing complexity of human life and yearned for someone to lift that burden from their shoulders.
Ancient mankind was free because no one was organized enough to oppress them. They were free of domination but victimized by Nature. Early in the history of "Progress" they traded freedom for security, accepting domination by others in exchange for organization of societies and their resources.
Eventually, they experimented with 'self-rule', (which we call, "democracy"). But self-rule requires personal responsibility, responsibility for one's own success and for one's own failures. The rise of democracy frightens those unready to take responsibility for their own lives and they have formed a movement that seeks to deconstruct the foundations of democracy and replace it with an "enlightened authoritarianism", or "rule of the most enlightened."
That is regression, not progress, and the manifestations of it in Art are not progress, but regression.
This is a concept-based image. But since that term has been used by something else I'll present as Symbolism. It is about "Art". But since "Art" is not a "main theme" in these listings, I'll list that as "Nude".
It presents the significant visual field elements:
The Primary colors as three graces,
On the Secondary colors and a symbolic brown as a world composed of ground, plants, and distant less definite background.
Black as spheres of blackness on a white sky.
Form is represented in the shading of the three graces.
Perspective is present in the overlapping of foreground objects, existence of objects on a plane with size diminishment as objects become more distant and atmospheric perspective in the transition to an indistinct background.
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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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