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The Artist at Work, 13 The Actress Prepares (2019) Drawing by Edwin Loftus
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Pastel
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12x10 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 8in, Width 5.5in - Framing This artwork is framed (Frame + Under Glass)
- Categories Drawings under $1,000 Illustration Cinema
Movies and other cinematic forms are, today, the High Art of the world. They are the biggest losers and biggest winners in the markets for art. And notably, they can be the best paying art for those who participate in them.
They are not surprisingly, group projects, some involving tens of thousands of contributors. The main contenders for the paramount positions; Disney-style Amusement Parks, architecture and some movements in politics.
The People's Republic of China is to an unprecedented degree, a work of art, a combination of reality and fiction, involving a billion participants and playing to an audience of more billions. It is a work involving both the sublime and the awful, and the audience is both foreign and domestic. It is an art of illusion, a representation of a societal system that doesn't actually exist. True ... its illusions are clumsy and generally don't work. But as an intentional representation of something that really isn't there, a representation that impacts the entire world. It is among the most important works of art in history and as such should be given due credit.
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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.
- Nationality: UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1951
- Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value,
- Groups: Certified Artists Contemporary American Artists