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Collision with Ice (2023) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

Pastel on Cardboard, 11x17 in
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  • Pastel on Cardboard
  • Dimensions Height 11in, Width 17in
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  • Categories Female nudes
Yes, this draws a comparison of female sexuality and icebergs upon both of which many a brave lad has been lost. I was young when birth control was new, sexually transmitted diseases were fewer and treatable and young women were still operating on the principle of sex for marriage. This was also the rise of the Feminist movement which was long overdue [...]
Yes, this draws a comparison of female sexuality and icebergs upon both of which many a brave lad has been lost.
I was young when birth control was new, sexually transmitted diseases were fewer and treatable and young women were still operating on the principle of sex for marriage.
This was also the rise of the Feminist movement which was long overdue in most respects, but rather oppressive regarding female sexuality and lacking respect for the other half of humanity.
Because I am in the evening of my life, these matters are for me but memories or academic discussions in that I am no longer part of the important quest for a tolerable mate.
I hear things have changed, but am old enough to know that no matter how much they change, they keep returning to a limited range of common patterns. Due to biology, there are issues in human relationships that remain in spite of whatever changes occur.
In this image, I mean no disrespect to females' very different set of issues around sex. But though I can learn things about them, as a male I cannot understand them from a female perspective. And understanding that I know it would be dishonest to pretend that I could.
All I can honestly present is a male perspective and from that perspective there is an inescapable comparison between female bodies and the icebergs that have sunk many a seaworthy ship.
For women viewing this piece ... think about the power you have and use it in ways responsible to your own needs, but aware also of its effect on men, not the evil men you rightly are on guard against, but on the good men around you as well and obviously ... your own wants and needs.

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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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