Filles de Harem (2005) Painting by L'Orientaliste
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Watercolor
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 12in, Width 16in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Oriental Art Everyday Life
Subject: Orientalisme
Medium: watercolour over pencil
Signed: by the artist R Lawrence
Fine Art Registry tag ID 15745
This painting of Filles de Harem was created 2 February 2005 by artist R Lawrence aka known as Manasfi and at present remains in the artist's private collection.
The painting was executed in watercolour over a pencilled drawing on paper and measures approximately 12 x 16 inches. The scene depicts girls luxuriating in the harem in traditional alluring costumes of fine silk and lace with jewels and bangles. By their side we see the typical Hookah Pipe known as "hubbly bubbly" and it's vapour diffusing into the air.
Whilst the artist has travelled to many Middle Eastern and North African countries collecting material and ideas, this particular painting is an imagined contemporary Orientalist scene.
About the artist:
Born in Shoreditch London she developed a passion for the Nineteenth Century art of old world Middle East and it's culture period and lavish costumes. Her influences in this passion to paint these scenes came from "les orientalises" painters of the nineteenth century such as Giulio Rosati, Fabbio Fabbi and John Frederick Lewis to name a few, a distinct movement of European painters who travelled to the Middle East.
Orientalism in brief:
The Nineteenth Century Middle East was a fantasy, particularly to artists then when travel opened up with advances in travel, communications and study, artists began to explore the fascination of the region indulging this fantasy of the Middle East of exotic luxuriance, sensual richness and forbidden pleasures, something quite different from what they knew in Europe.
Related themes
Exotic Harem PaintingOrientalist WatercolourArabic GirlsOrientalism Fantasy ArtworkOdalisques
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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