The Pink Cadillac 58 (2018) Painting by L'Orientaliste
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Acrylic
on Canvas
- Dimensions Height 12in, Width 16in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $500 Classicism
This painting was created by R Lawrence, English Orientalist genre artist.
The style of this piece is a romantic landscape painted in 2018
The size of the painting measures 12 x 16 inches, acrylic laid over canvas board, brush and knife.
The artwork is signed by the artist on the right bottom. The painting is not currently framed.
Detail:
The mood this painting sends to the audience, a hot tropical feel on a soft sandy Mediterranean beach.
The focal point of the painting is a beautiful vintage 58 Pink Cadillac motor car, with a side stripe. The pink caddy is stationed on a sandy beach under a weeping willow tree.
Above a clear blue sky creates an illusion of a blanket of warm sun, with a turquoise blue sparking sea in the background.
Walking across the sandy beach towards the pink Cadillac, we see an elegant lady in a pink flowing dress, purple sash with long dark hair.
The dominant colours in the painting are rich colours of pink and blue.
Inspiration behind this art piece:
The inspiration around this painting of the pink caddy came partly when sitting in a pub on a hot Summer's day, taking in the views from the large open windows of the Spa Essex, whilst sipping a Guinness or two, a beautiful pink Cadillac cruised by and back again in the sunshine. A car I've always adored, such a stunning motor vehicle hardly seen driven on the roads these days, and not since I was in the USA several years back. Fresh in my mind, and a little research on the year, I decided on the 1958 vintage model, even though I’d never painted a motor vehicle before. I thought I would give it's surroundings a warm Mediterranean background to set the scene.
Techniques:
I worked on the classic car with much enthusiasm, first in pencil adding the features of the classic car, then excitingly applying the main body colour pink (not blue) acrylic paint using brushes. The sandy beach was painted by knife to add texture. The artwork is a special piece to me as I got to create my dream car.
The artwork using acrylic over board, took around 2 days to complete over a week in different sittings.
Sold:
The painting sold to a private client in the UK 2020.
Other information:
Elvis Presley bought his first pink and white Cadillac in 1955 and known to have owned more than 100 Cadillacs in his lifetime.
Related themes
The Pink CadillacVintage CarMediterraneanSandy BeachWeeping Willow Tree
Artist: Rozlynn M Lawrence-Manasfi
Genre: MENA Orientalist
Middle East and North African "MENA" artist, whose works predominantly represent orientalist era in the arts of ancient Middle East, North Africa, Egypt and Turkey, depicting scenes of Arabian pictorial history in landscape and figurative style.
Fantasy of the Orient
Her paintings are a romantic fantasy of the Orient, populated with exotic rich sensual and colourful scenes of worlds beyond Europe, illustrating rug sellers, dancers, harems, turbaned men in luscious velvet cloaks, the alluring odalisques, women in luxurious clothing, jewelled slippers, silks and velvet gowns with beautiful beaded embellishment, dusty bazaars, souks, snake charmers, with traders in the bustling Arabic markets, selling their wares of beautiful orient trinkets, hookah, lush decorative fabrics, beautiful textiles in vibrant glowing shimmering colours of red, green, gold, blue, yellow and pink, lavish tapestry, beautiful Arabesque tiles, mosques and architecture to the golden sands of the hot desert and palm trees, an oasis set in a mysterious far away land.
About the Artist
English autodidactic painter, born in London, grew up in the 1960's Shoreditch, London.
Her artistic influence expanded and blossomed with the introduction of Orientalism in art in the early 1980's. Beautifully vibrant and lush, she populated a series of Middle East, Orientalist scenes in Watercolour by famous artists Giulio Rosati and Antonio Gargiullo.
By the late 1980's she developed her own style, painting more in oils extending her skills to commissioned work for friends, painting their favourite subjects. In the 1990's a window opened to assist at a local community Sunday art club at Napier Grove N1, run by artists for the local community, thus proving opportunity to interact with other artists an opportunity to network, show and exhibit her works at the club, with encouragement to show and sell her paintings to a wider audience.
Exhibitions and Selling
In the past a handful of paintings were shown in the gallery space at the Lion and Lamb, Hoxton, she exhibited a painting in the London Mall Gallery in the 1980's, but rarely participate in exhibitions, painting being secondary to her main professional career, nevertheless the Artist has successfully sold most of her works, as demonstrated by the steady sales of her paintings in the UK and Europe to private clients and galleries.
A collection of her paintings can be viewed at her portfolio on the Artmajeur Gallery website. Details about the Artist are documented on Wikipedia.
Some much earlier paintings bear the FAR branding with FAR tags. These were documented on the Fine Art Registry (FAR) until FAR abandoned hundreds of artists without warning, the site went down in 2012 with no recovery of digital images. Fortunately, most digital images were curated on the Artmajeur platform.
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Nationality:
UNITED KINGDOM
- Date of birth : 1958
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary British Artists
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