The Shrug, (after Munch) (2017) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

Pastel on Paper, 8x5.5 in
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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Drawing, Pastel on Paper
  • Dimensions 12x10 in
    Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 8in, Width 5.5in
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  • Categories Drawings under $500 Expressionism Everyday Life
There are real horrors in this world. They don't come under the labels: angst, depression, frustration, post-trauma, neurosis, heart-break, disappointment, etc., for most of us. I worked for thirteen years with the violently mentally ill, a danger to themselves and others, in a major regional Psychiatric ICU. I have seen severe mental psychosis and [...]
There are real horrors in this world. They don't come under the labels: angst, depression, frustration, post-trauma, neurosis, heart-break, disappointment, etc., for most of us.
I worked for thirteen years with the violently mentally ill, a danger to themselves and others, in a major regional Psychiatric ICU. I have seen severe mental psychosis and few of us will know that severity of distress. But I have also dealt with acute, severe depression and don't want to make light of anyone's emotional crisis.
But a lot of the influence in these issues is external. It is a mass cultural delusion, based on popular views of the nature of the human psyche and the guidance, pressures, role-models, etc. the milieu of civilization provides us.
To understand this, you need to have an understanding of what average life was like just a few hundred years ago, or a hundred years ago, or just in my lifetime. You can't think you way out of depression. No one is that strong or tough. But you can think yourself into a hopelessness/helplessness cycle that feeds depression.
Support economies and governing systems that give emphasis on individual empowerment and opportunity and teach about the true historic nature of the human experience and trains people in using those powers and opportunities and you can equip your fellow humans with the tools to deal with the frustrations and inadequacies we encounter.
Part of this is education reform and a big need there is the end of government control over education. Governments will inevitably educate in favor of becoming a fit in the society the people governing advocate and away from the individualized education that meets the needs of the individual. Publicly financed education is only about two hundred years old. But in most cases it has become social indoctrination rather than the outfitting of individuals with the tools to succeed in the lives they choose for themselves because it meets their needs and abilities.
We need more ability to shrug and less necessity to scream and the social environments that support that.

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ScreamsShrugsHelplessnessSelf-Determination

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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 [...]

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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