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A new portrait of King Charles has the internet aghast
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| Credit: Jonathan Yeo/AARON CHOWN/AFP/Getty |
This week, King Charles unveiled a new portrait of himself by the acclaimed painter Jonathan Yeo at Buckingham Palace.
Reactions to the very red, very raw-looking piece have been mixed. Many on social media note that the portrait is both intriguing and unflattering. Here's what people are saying about the art online.
Portrait of a colonizer
The British monarchy gained and retained power by colonizing indigenous nations for centuries. As a benefactor of that legacy and the modern representative of the monarchy's oppressive past, King Charles has been criticized for his inability to make appropriate reparations (or even apologize) for the pain the institution has caused around the world.
Echoes of "Tampongate"
In 1993, Charles made international news when tabloids published transcripts of phone calls he had made to now-wife Camilla Bowles while they were both married to other people.
The scandal became known as "Tampongate" because the transcripts included an exchange in which the duo discussed Charles' hope to be reincarnated as one of Camilla's tampons. Some online observers have noted that the portrait's color and texture resemble a used feminine hygiene product, leading to comparisons.
Is the painting very bad, excellent, or both?
A critic at The Guardian panned Yeo's painting as a "superficially observed and carelessly executed bland banality," and the artist himself acknowledged that viewers "might not agree with how I've done [the piece]." One thing is for sure: like all art, its appeal is subjective.
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I like it
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Slayer album cover. This is by far the coolest King portrait of all time. Way to go, Charles 🤘
ReplyDeleteIt suits him - evil
ReplyDelete??
DeleteI really like it. It’s traditional but also a bit modern.
ReplyDeleteI think it’s great.
ReplyDeleteI like it but as it drags an outdated institution into the 21st century but can't help wondering if the artist had watched ghost busters 2 before hand and saw Charlie boy in the river of slime 🤣🤣
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Picture of Dorian Grey....lol
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Brilliant painting!
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Deletei would like to know the thought process behind it
ReplyDeletethe artist has discussed it extensively, you can google his description of his process etc
DeleteI think it's brilliant. I like it very much. Kudos to the artist.
ReplyDeleteThe Red Wedding (Buckingham Palace’s Version)
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful with the black frame.
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DeleteThe way I saw this earlier and skipped past because I thought it was some AI rendering 🫠
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DeleteBrilliant work showing Charles soft and caring side.
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DeleteLooks like the picture from Ghost Busters
ReplyDeleteIt’s fantastic his coinage is spot on too.
ReplyDeleteChameleon lizard
ReplyDeleteI love it, very different!
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Delete...how, fitting.
ReplyDeleteLove it
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DeleteGreat painting
ReplyDeleteI really like it
ReplyDeleteIs it finished?
ReplyDeleteBLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LORD!!! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!
ReplyDeleteWhich country is not at fault?
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DeleteIt appears that Boba Fett has encased the King in rarely-seen Red Carbonite.
ReplyDeleteA blood drenched king representing a blood drenched Empire. Perfectly appropriate 👌🏻
ReplyDelete"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? "
so true
DeleteAren't they all?
Deletewhat a load of bs. Queen Elizabeth was instrumental in supporting many countries moving to independence peacefully during her reign and the Commonwealth as an organization has been nothing but beneficial to its many members. Charles ancestors were essential to the end of the international slave trade with their commitment to smashing the slave operations operating in the Atlantic and throughout the world with the support of the British citizens and military. I doubt your ancestors did anything that useful.
Deletetell that to the colonies
DeleteWhy does it look like he is already in hell
ReplyDeleteis he in hell....or on route....baaahaaaa
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the stop oil people already threw tomato soup on it.
ReplyDeleteTomato proof. Won’t see the difference.
DeleteIt is odd. But to each his own.
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DeleteThe red represent the blood of innocent spilled by British empire
ReplyDeletethat’s where my head went too. 🫠
DeleteI like the abstract quality but imo a little too heavy on the red tones 🙀-evoking association with blood & satanic themes
ReplyDeleteIt fits him...the red dragon...has a ancestral background of Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș or Vlad Dracula )...do The research... and he will always be living in his own personal hell that he created...
ReplyDeleteVlad was a hero who repelled the Ottoman Invaders and helped save Europe. I wish he was my ancestor.
DeleteI took a nap, woke up and now he’s burning in hell?!?
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Delete"The blood is the life! The blood is the life!"
ReplyDeleteBloody awesome dude you look like the devil !
ReplyDeleteLooks like he’s frozen in carbonite….off to Jabba’s Palace for ol’ Charlie
ReplyDeleteNot appealing, but a perfect representation of him.
ReplyDeleteKind of Kool, but still creepy
ReplyDeleteQueen Elizabeth...through Mary of Teck, her grandmother, who was the grandaughter of Countess Claudine Rhedey von Kis-Rhede, whose family has a maternal-line connection to Mircea the Shepherd of Wallachia, the grandson of Vlad the Monk, whose father was Vlad II Dracul, making him Vlad the Impaler's brother.
ReplyDeleteHorrible. Too much red. Background should be different color.
ReplyDeleteÇa c'est de la communication pure, ça veut dire le sang va couler.
ReplyDeleteI think it's rather good.
ReplyDeleteIs there something missing on the forehead to make the painting complete? Hehe ✌🏽
ReplyDeleteHow convinient… all in red….
ReplyDeletewhy did the artist throw out his horns?
ReplyDeleteIt may look creepy, but his Life is more creepy than the Painting itself. He was named after a beheaded King; he waited for so long to be King; his Wife was crashed in a Tunnel; his spouse is Queen now; his Brother harassed young naked Lass, his Sonny lost his Castle... What a Life...Alas, What a Life of a king it is...
ReplyDeletetoo bloody. what if blue?
ReplyDeleteBrilliant
ReplyDeleteSomeone has to spend Mama's money!
ReplyDeleteyou mean Africa’s money where she stole it from!
DeleteVigo, the Scourge of Carpathia!
ReplyDeleteSomeone call the ghostbusters
ReplyDeleteSehr geil!
ReplyDeleteScarlet is the Devils color
ReplyDeleteWho cares ?
ReplyDeleteI'm not gonna lie, it's pretty demonic even for the British royal fam. I'm not saying it's a bad representation, I'm just making an observation
ReplyDeleteIt's the lady Gaga meat dress of royal portraiture
He's like Louis VIII without the charisma or charm.
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DeleteGenerations of blood on his families hands.
ReplyDeleteBecause salmon ? 🍣 
ReplyDeleteLooks like he’s in The fires of hell.
ReplyDeleteJust saw this when its mirrored. All hail?? 🤣🤣
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ReplyDeleteWhy don't they just put the royals in a burlap sack and toss them in a river?
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ReplyDeleteno it doesn't, lots of people, including me, like it
ReplyDelete" I like it"
ReplyDelete- Vigo the Carpathian
He's probably the most evil man in the planet, some call him antichrist
ReplyDeleteHis Satanic soul is showing...
ReplyDelete50 Shadows!!
ReplyDeleteIt’s a Depiction of the elites drinking blood.
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ReplyDeleteI think it’s beautiful.
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ReplyDeleteWho cares?
ReplyDeleteBrilliant
ReplyDeleteWhy!?!?!
ReplyDeleteHan Solo 😆
ReplyDeleteput Captain Solo in the cargo hold.
DeleteLooks like the goofy governor painting in California’s capitol
ReplyDeletepathetic king
ReplyDeleteHideous
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ReplyDeleteStupid
ReplyDeleteHorrid.
ReplyDeleteTerrible...
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ReplyDeletebig 🩸 on his 🖐🏻🖐🏻 vibes
ReplyDeleteDracula
ReplyDeleteIt could be a warning danger sign
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Delete"On a mountain of skulls in the castle of pain I sat on a throne of blood" -Vigo the Carpathian
ReplyDeleteThat's Vigo, The Carpathian 😅 from Ghostbusters 2.
ReplyDeleteFor a second I thought he was frozen in carbonite
ReplyDeleteShould have worn a blue jacket
ReplyDeleteTo the artist. It’s awesome. Looking past subject matter.
ReplyDeleteIt is perfect!
ReplyDeleteMaybe he has always wished that people would see who he really is deep down (face) and the things he does (hands) that go beyond his public persona.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense..All Rulers Became one from a river of blood. The bloodline is always tainted by it.. Its the price of being one.
ReplyDeleteI like it
ReplyDeleteIs the butterfly diana?
ReplyDelete😳
ReplyDeleteI think I saw this movie. Ghostbusters, right?
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Delete the artist lays a symbolic reference to the allegorical meaning the red represents of all the blood the English are responsible for in history, with an almost diabolical intent. Maybe
ReplyDeleteMcDonald's killed more
Deletegood idea let’s paint Ronald that way
DeleteI like that his red uniform fades into the red background, but the man is the prominent subject matter. All earthly things fade away, and man once again returns naked to the earth, but the soul lives forever.
ReplyDeleteHad his red shoes on too....
ReplyDeleteHe looks like Han Solo frozen in carbonite. Hope Camilla can rescue him from Jabba The Hut's compound.
ReplyDeleteHe looks like Hans Solo only more British
ReplyDeleteI was thinking this would be a perfect rendition of tRump.
ReplyDeleteThey're just trolling us at this point.
ReplyDeleteHis hands aren't sausage enough.
ReplyDeleteI like it.
ReplyDeleteThis is a joke☺️
ReplyDeleteAlmost perfect, just missing the trident and the horns.
ReplyDeleteCharles… the bloodthirsty
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ReplyDeleteLooks like he’s burning in hell
ReplyDeleteLooks a red sleestack
ReplyDeletelook like he has blood on his hands.
ReplyDeleteWhen you mirror it you see the beast
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