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Suzanna and the Elders (2021) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

Pencil on Paper, 6x8 in
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    Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 6in, Width 8in
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Suzanna and the Elders is part of the Apocryphal Christian religious tradition. The virtuous Suzanna bathes each evening in her walled garden. Associates of her husband, two village Elders, know this and contrive to hide in the garden to see her naked. Succeeding in this, they attempt to coerce her into having sex with them, or they will publicly denounce [...]
Suzanna and the Elders is part of the Apocryphal Christian religious tradition. The virtuous Suzanna bathes each evening in her walled garden. Associates of her husband, two village Elders, know this and contrive to hide in the garden to see her naked. Succeeding in this, they attempt to coerce her into having sex with them, or they will publicly denounce her as an adulteress. She refuses and they accuse her, using their knowledge of the intimate areas of her body as evidence. The plan goes awry and these perverse Elders are condemned instead of Suzanna.
This is one of the most important fables in Western Civilization as an example of the evil and danger of tolerating the making of false accusations and one of the foundations of the concept of Justice. In Hammurabi's Codex it calls for the perjurer to receive the same punishment the accused might have. In the founding Laws of the Roman Republic it called for the perjurer to be cast off of the Tarpean Cliffs. In the Ten Commandments it is commandment nine. We cannot have a System of Justice, if false accusation is not punished, yet that is the case in most places today.

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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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