The Voyeur (2018) Drawing by Edwin Loftus
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Drawing,
Pastel
on Paper
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Dimensions
12x10 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 8in, Width 6in - Framing This artwork is framed (Frame + Under Glass)
- Categories Drawings under $1,000 Illustration Love
This is all apocryphal, but peeping Toms are an ongoing issue in societies that practice taboos on public nudity, which is most of them. "Invasion of Privacy" can be frightening and leave the spied upon person with a sense of unease in what should be the safe area of their own home. But this is an offense with many shades of gray.
If someone stands exposed where a person going about their normal business can see them, it would be an imposition on the observer to expect them to look away, and curiosity is natural. That is very different from creeping up to a window to peer through a gap in drawn curtains.
In this image I have turned the usual, male-on-female nature of this around, making it a female spying on lovemaking by her homosexual neighbors. Many women i have known have expressed a curiosity with erotic implications about this situation. We can say that it is natural curiosity about something they may observe, but never experience, or something that is unusual for them to see, or perhaps it is just a healthy appreciation of the potential for beauty in the naked male body. Each of these could also be applied to men's curiosity about female-on-female sex and the naked female body, but the context within society cannot be viewed as the same, even if the actions are, because the roles and conditions of males and females are different.
It is further complicated by the phenomena of "exhibitionism" in which people desire being observed in usually private circumstances.
This is an issue, like many, so complex, that generalized rules about it can never deal with its variety of circumstances ... which is not to say that societies do not need to seek out such rules for the circumstances in which such intrusions on privacy can be traumatic.
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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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