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Celebration of the End to War, 1919 (2016) Drawing by Edwin Loftus

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This portrays an imaginary party at a French Chateau, celebrating the cessation of hostilities a few months earlier, November 11, 1918. No one has been able to estimate the total deaths due to the War to end Wars. Lower estimates trend around 20 million, upper estimates 3 1/2 times higher. I've been asked about the authenticity of the low-cut gowns [...]
This portrays an imaginary party at a French Chateau, celebrating the cessation of hostilities a few months earlier, November 11, 1918. No one has been able to estimate the total deaths due to the War to end Wars. Lower estimates trend around 20 million, upper estimates 3 1/2 times higher.
I've been asked about the authenticity of the low-cut gowns the women are wearing. the source were issues of 'La Parisienne' published in 1919 and they were cut exactly this low in the back and almost to the naval in front.
My grandfather was a Captain in the AEF in Ordinance. He shipped out in 1918, but was delayed in Rouen, due to a bout of Swine Flu. After release, his deployment to the Dunkirk area was delayed because he had proven too valuable in ing for war expenditures and was posted in Paris. He pushed for frontline deployment and was finally granted it on November 11, 1918, the day the war officially ended. He remained in and Belgium until July 1919, working on the official US military estimate of materiel losses in the course of the war. He spent most of the war traveling with generals to visit charming hostesses at beautiful French Chateaus and took a trip to Italy when they dropped out of the war.

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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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