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The Artist at Work, Embroidery (2021) Drawing by Edwin Loftus
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Drawing,
Pastel
on Paper
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Dimensions
20x16 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 14in, Width 11in - Framing This artwork is framed (Frame + Under Glass)
- Categories Drawings under $5,000 Conceptual Art Pop Culture
Many try to dismiss decorative arts as ... 'just decoration.' How wrong that is. Decorative arts embellish and enhance our environment. Some, decorate buildings or outdoor spaces.
some decorate a room or a wall or a table top. Some, decorate people or cute little dogs.
They meet every criteria of "Environmental Art", except an elitist establishment doesn't give them the public funding support or big business grants that the so-called "Environmental Artists" get.
Balderdash! They make of art a vacuous, empty thing with no real-life human substance.
One makes stick figures out of construction beams that look like 'children tried to do architecture'. Another builds walls such as our ancestors have constructed for thousands of years, except theirs have no practical value. There's a guy that leans big slabs of steel together and tells us that the seeming potential for them to fall, leaving a pile of slabs of flat steel, is the most sophisticated thing we could ever want to know about art, over and over again as long as elitists will pay him, (they did fall once, crushing a workman underneath). And I love the guy that wraps things ... wow, is that ever not profound. And having done it once and made his dubious statement about what "art" is, he has since decided that its the only thing he has to say, and as long as elitists will fund him he'll go on making the same statement over, and over, and over, and over ...
This isn't "exploration". This isn't the "cutting edge" of anything. All of these deconstructions of 'what art is' are repeats of the concepts discovered and utilized by real artists for thousands of years, the hundreds and thousands of realizations that ancient artists made so long ago we have forgotten that they once really were, "cutting edge" discoveries.
I don't mind if these people want to rediscover fire or re-invent the wheel. What I mind is that they have developed and deployed an insiders game to defraud the struggling people of countries all over the world, establishing a faux system of artists, art critics, curators, galleries and prestige-seeking rich and powerful people that pass their unimaginative products off as "high art", while denigrating most of the real artists and the work they do.
I just think it's overdue for us to challenge and expose this fraud.
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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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