Composition of Primaries, Secondaries, Black and White (2022) Dessin par Edwin Loftus

The "art" of drawing is far more than just putting marks on a surface. The "truth of Art" is far more than the deconstruction of its components, the act of making, or the accidents that may happen in its process.
The true history of Art is not the history of its deconstruction into components. It began as components that had not yet risen to the level of a means of more sophisticated communication. Modernism and post modernism are not what Art has been building toward. They are not "Progress," they are manifestations of the opposition to Progress.
Since humanity became numerous enough to make social organization practical, there have been many short-sighted people that have lamented the growing complexity of human life and yearned for someone to lift that burden from their shoulders.
Ancient mankind was free because no one was organized enough to oppress them. They were free of domination but victimized by Nature. Early in the history of "Progress" they traded freedom for security, accepting domination by others in exchange for organization of societies and their resources.
Eventually, they experimented with 'self-rule', (which we call, "democracy"). But self-rule requires personal responsibility, responsibility for one's own success and for one's own failures. The rise of democracy frightens those unready to take responsibility for their own lives and they have formed a movement that seeks to deconstruct the foundations of democracy and replace it with an "enlightened authoritarianism", or "rule of the most enlightened."
That is regression, not progress, and the manifestations of it in Art are not progress, but regression.

This is a concept-based image. But since that term has been used by something else I'll present as Symbolism. It is about "Art". But since "Art" is not a "main theme" in these listings, I'll list that as "Nude".
It presents the significant visual field elements:
The Primary colors as three graces,
On the Secondary colors and a symbolic brown as a world composed of ground, plants, and distant less definite background.
Black as spheres of blackness on a white sky.
Form is represented in the shading of the three graces.
Perspective is present in the overlapping of foreground objects, existence of objects on a plane with size diminishment as objects become more distant and atmospheric perspective in the transition to an indistinct background.

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Nude