Fest For Beatles Fans - Cosmic Portraits

This work - it looks like a silkscreen picture to me - gives a colorful, cosmic twist to the original black-and-white portraits that graced the cover of the soundtrack album of the Beatles's first movie, A Hard Day's Night. The color-mod effect is enhanced by rows of bright yellow and orange pixels forming bands of stars.

John and Paul are depicted normally, but the portraits of George and Ringo were inspired by the negatives of the original photos.

One of the Beatles's many co-stars of A Hard Day's Night was stage actor Victor Spinetti - whom you'll meet tomorrow. :-)

Copyright 2009 by Steven Maginnis