The Beatles Crossing to the Spa Pub (2022) Painting by L'Orientaliste
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Acrylic
on Linen Canvas
- Dimensions Height 15.8in, Width 11.8in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $500 Figurative Celebrity Portraits
Now offered for sale, one of a kind original painting on linen stretched canvas by L'Orientaliste available for you. Hand signed by the Artist; comes with official L'Orientaliste Certificate of Authenticity.
The artwork was developed at the end of 2022, it pictures the four men - George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon - single file on a zebra crossing situated on Main Road Hockley.
The painting is based loosely on The iconic album cover art for The Beatles Abbey Road. It's one of the most widely recognised album cover arts of all time and has spawned countless recreations.
This is one of two paintings of the Beatles, this being the B painting developed loosely of the famous Abbey Road scene, which the artist deviated from the original Abbey Road cover picture. The genre isn't the artist's usual syle of painting, something out the Artist's comfort zone. The two Beatles paintings were developed simultaneously. The background of the picture was purly made up as the paint hit the canvas.
Overview description:
The painting is on high quality stretched canvas, usual size of 30/40. Unframed.
Painted direct with acrylic paints using brush and knife, executed partially from aerial views, the site is Hockley Village Main Road looking towards the Spa public house.
The focal point is the iconic scene of Lennon, Starr, McCartney and Harrison single file walking diagonally across a multicoloured zebra crossing situated on Main Road. Lennon, McCartney and Starr are wearing suits Harrison in blue denim, the band have just recorded their last Album and heading to the Spa public house to celebrate.
As our eye looks to the left side of the crossing, parked is white Beetle car with more cars parked in front along of the left side walk. Over to the right side of the Main road, we see a blue car travelling towards the zebra crossing, at the far distance there's an old village pub, the Spa.
A fun colurful scene not meant to be like for like of the original Abbey Rd album cover nor Main Road, Hockley.
Abbey Road Facts:
The Beatles crossed the road a number of times while photograher, Macmillan photographed six shots of them from a ladder in the middle of the road whilst a policeman held up the traffic. Friday 8 August 1969 was a hot day in North London, and for four of the six photographs McCartney walked barefoot; for the other two he wore sandals.
The iconic photograph graces their 1969 album of the same name.
The Spa pub
The Spa pub (featured in the background of the artwork) formerly known as The Spa Hotel was built in the 1840s to accommodate visitors who it was anticipated would visit the nearby Spa Pump Room to take the health-giving waters. However, the fashion for visiting spas declined in favour of sea bathing at resorts such as Southend. The pump room closed and became a village pub. It changed it's name to the Royal Oak then by 1891 it changed its name back to the Spa Hotel and was a hotel to the 1960s.
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March 2024
Related themes
Beatles; BeatlemaniaHockley EssexSpa Hotel HockleyZebra CrossingLennon; Starr
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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