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Attraction and Love toast their Latest Conquests (2022) Drawing by Edwin Loftus
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Drawing,
Pastel
on Cardboard
- Dimensions Height 11in, Width 14in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Drawings under $5,000 Symbolism Love
Cupid glories in making us fools. To him the besotted lover who's aching longing goes unrewarded is as much a triumph as that which leads to either long- or short-term reward. A heart's yearning is his goal, and his arrows strike only one side of a pair more often than both. He [particularly enjoys the power of his position, his ability to activate in each of us the instinctive recognition of the life incomplete that is not shared. Caught unaware, his arrows wound us inside and are particularly deadly to the freshest bloom of youth's naivete.
Venus is a little less callous. She at least only feeds when the attraction kindled is mutually felt. While it lasts, she dances in the light and sings a sweet song for those that love. But she is careless in whom she brings together, looking not for those elements that will keep love's fire alive down the years of a full life. If that happens, she is content. But if in time the foundations of love grow weakened, if love dulls and hearts grieve ... she has other fields to tend. other gardens in which to sew her seeds. She just moves on when this is choked with weeds.
Venus is lazy and Cupid known as cruel. But they see their roles differently than we. They are planters, not tenders. They start the fire, if it goes out or escapes its boundaries to start a conflagration, that they see as our neglect and none of theirs. They are starters, not finishers. The outcome of the stories they weave, they leave to you and me.
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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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