the subtle touch of a monarch butterfly about to land on his shoulder, presumably just after vacating the shoulder of the queen as she passed away
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:18 (four months ago) link
the bloated, anatomically wrong looking hands reveal that this Yeo dude was always shit at life drawing and is incapable of observing the human form.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:25 (four months ago) link
not that he is dealing with a human form here!
The fingers are the one bit that he might have got right in this case.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:27 (four months ago) link
painting makes me want to see a Bacon screaming pope version of Charles
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:28 (four months ago) link
trying (and failing) to do the face in a realism style and then doing the hands in a Beryl Cook style is a jarring mix imo
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:32 (four months ago) link
dude must've fought a lot of argentinians to win all those medals
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:33 (four months ago) link
come back Lucien Freud, paint this half dead clown with bollocks out!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:34 (four months ago) link
The hands look more like his hands than the face looks like his face.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fswkqrzh2f4va1.jpg
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:35 (four months ago) link
it looks like a paperback book cover from 1971
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:35 (four months ago) link
Trying that again...
https://i.redd.it/swkqrzh2f4va1.jpg
that reminds me, I'm all out of Richmond sausages
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:37 (four months ago) link
Hate that this is not terrible.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:40 (four months ago) link
but it is terrible!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:41 (four months ago) link
it's reaching for some level of national portrait gallery classicism and it fucking fails so badly imo
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:43 (four months ago) link
it's like something a 6th former doing an A level art project would do
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:44 (four months ago) link
Reminds me of when you finish the washing up and blow up the gloves.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:45 (four months ago) link
See, I get the exact opposite feeling — if it hadn't been officially commissioned, people would be talking about how it was a painting of the king burning in hell, or drowning in the blood of exploited colonial subjects, or something. When I posted it on Twitter I juxtaposed it with the skinned corpse guy writing I AM IN HELL HELP ME on the wall in blood from Hellraiser 2. And that's why I like it.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:54 (four months ago) link
Someone on my timeline juxtaposed it with Bloody Prom Carrie.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:01 (four months ago) link
If on his deathbed the artist admits that this is King Charles in hell, the blood of the empire, I would then think it was a pretty good portrait.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:09 (four months ago) link
He looks cool
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:13 (four months ago) link
the pudgy fingers might be some side effect of cancer treatment? They kinda look like the Swedish Chef's fingers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:14 (four months ago) link
both painting and sausage fingers pre-date the cancer treatment
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:19 (four months ago) link
They've been like that for a decade or more.
This really is reminiscent of Bacon's Pope.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:20 (four months ago) link
sausage, bacon, tomato
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:24 (four months ago) link
oh Francis Bacon butties, come off it, it's merely a standard portrait with some superficial painterly moodmaking, to make it look more *modern*. There is not a lot to it.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:28 (four months ago) link
The greatest-ever official portrait is the one of 1960s U.S. attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach.
"This painting was met with some criticism as it was considered 'avant-garde' and not in keeping with the more traditional portrayals of cabinet members. However, Katzenbach was pleased with the work and it remains his official portrait."
https://www.justice.gov/d9/bios/portraits/2017/06/28/65_-_nicholas_debelleville_katzenbach.png
― jaymc, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:32 (four months ago) link
i was just making a joke about bacon and sausages to be honest
i remember that guy from star trek tho
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:33 (four months ago) link
no I meant the other Bacon comparison!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:35 (four months ago) link
reminiscent of Bacon's Pope
And I certainly wasn't referring to the quality of the art!
― kraudive, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:36 (four months ago) link
Yeo's got some ... interesting tastes. An entire series of porn collage portraits and paintings of women's body parts in preparation for plastic surgery.
https://i.imgur.com/jpqRpJt.jpeg
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:48 (four months ago) link
what a worthless wanker!
the hands of Dorian Gray (only they look even worse irl)
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:54 (four months ago) link
Funnily enough Dorian Gray was my first thought on seeing this.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:58 (four months ago) link
Well now, this is the last thread I thought I'd get unexpectedly NSFW'd on :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 22:06 (four months ago) link
ah sorry, probably should have just linked to his work
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 22:09 (four months ago) link
That Katzenbach portrait is stellar, first time I've ever thought having a portrait of myself could be worthwhile
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 23:18 (four months ago) link
King Vigo the Charlespathian III― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, May 14, 2024 8:07 PM (yesterday)
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, May 14, 2024 8:07 PM (yesterday)
Nahahaaaaaaa
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 00:34 (four months ago) link
Him blurring into the background is super strange, as if his head and hands are just floating there in a ghostly manner. The fleshy pink red contrasting with his wizened appearance adds to the effect. And I cannot make sense of the butterfly except as a symbol of imminent death.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 07:27 (four months ago) link
The painting itself isn't bad at all
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 07:29 (four months ago) link
The butterfly is a Monarch.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:02 (four months ago) link
It refers to Elizabeth’s metamorphosis when she emerges from her pupal state
― subpost master (wins), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:04 (four months ago) link
I just cannot comprehend that some ppl think this is a good portrait!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:06 (four months ago) link
it's RA summer show quality or substitute that word with shite.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:07 (four months ago) link
The fat fingers are done well
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:10 (four months ago) link
compliments to the King, them's some freakishly fucked up hands
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:13 (four months ago) link
The inclusion of the butterfly is truly pathetic.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:27 (four months ago) link
it's cringeworthy, what a fucking hack.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:32 (four months ago) link
the butterfly is a link to his bluesky profile
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:35 (four months ago) link
his twitter handle is @realjonathanyeo, to fully raise the hellraiser curtain hire @fakejonathanyeo
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:41 (four months ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:punhfmpogezgazwz6vvt3pja/bafkreibxy3ztthqtalkz45drmyt2iu7fhnvp3zwvxd64vmwdakuwihkege@jpeg
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:21 (four months ago) link