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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
sausage, bacon, tomato
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:24 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
no I meant the other Bacon comparison!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:35 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
ah sorry, probably should have just linked to his work
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 22:09 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
The painting itself isn't bad at all
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 07:29 (one month ago) link
The butterfly is a Monarch.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:02 (one month ago) link
It refers to Elizabeth’s metamorphosis when she emerges from her pupal state
― subpost master (wins), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:04 (one month ago) link
I just cannot comprehend that some ppl think this is a good portrait!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:06 (one month ago) link
it's RA summer show quality or substitute that word with shite.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:07 (one month ago) link
The fat fingers are done well
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:10 (one month ago) link
compliments to the King, them's some freakishly fucked up hands
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:13 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
it's cringeworthy, what a fucking hack.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:32 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
his twitter handle is @realjonathanyeo, to fully raise the hellraiser curtain hire @fakejonathanyeo
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:41 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
thats right
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:22 (one month ago) link
move over pinhead here comes bangerhand
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:30 (one month ago) link
looooool really fits with the Vertigo style
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 11:34 (one month ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/the-avocado.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-10-at-1.54.24-PM.png?resize=720%2C450&ssl=1
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 12:06 (one month ago) link
I don't know why people get so aggressive over a painting - I like it. I may not like the guy on it much, but I like the portrait.
― StanM, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 13:30 (one month ago) link
As for the portrait of the King, Yeo said on his website that the vivid colors of the glazes are “not only resonating with the royal heritage found in many historical portraits but also injecting a dynamic, contemporary jolt into the genre with its uniformly powerful hue — providing a modern contrast to more traditional depictions.”
"a dynamic, contemporary jolt into the genre.."
this fucking tool brings out my inner Brian Sewell, fwiw imo a daubed and overworked pseudo-painterly background behind a very unremarkable and follically flattering portrait maketh not what this hack says it maketh! Anyway this seems the correct thread to aggressively dislike a bad royal portrait by a pisspoor artist.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 13:56 (one month ago) link
this is the thread where we declare our deathless love for bad art: on no! FITE! oh NO!!
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:00 (one month ago) link
I'm now a fan of the portrait
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/15/jonathan-yeo-portrait-of-charles-iii-review-a-cringeworthy-bit-of-facile-flattery
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:18 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UZFsYzz.png
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:19 (one month ago) link
I hate to say this, but Jonathan Jones of the Graun is almost completely otm - the review makes all the correct criticisms this piece of shite deserves, but then gives it a completely unearned one star rating.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:26 (one month ago) link
the review loses me when it demands a more realistic portrayal of Charles, the difficult, complex man he is .. blah blah .. he's a facile, selfish man-child. I don't see much beyond that.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:30 (one month ago) link
He hath risen pic.twitter.com/X48QFA9PLb— 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 (@PolyDepression) May 15, 2024
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link
A psychedelic sea of lurid reds and a clunking monarch butterfly cannot save this superficially observed and carelessly executed bland banality
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:14 (one month ago) link
Jonathan Jones is wrong again
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:26 (one month ago) link
the first thing it made me think of is the cover to Yoko Ono's 2001 album Blueprint for a Sunrise (which is a re-coloured version of a Hubert Vos portrait of the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi)
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27368d991d554862425c6882453
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:19 (one month ago) link
(with Ono's face superimposed on it, obv)
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:20 (one month ago) link
similarly carroty fingers too
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:57 (one month ago) link
the painting isnt good as art but its better than a lot of portraiture of important people at depicting a human face
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 May 2024 02:05 (one month ago) link
i dont know much abt art but i meme what i meme
― mark s, Thursday, 16 May 2024 09:19 (one month ago) link
as a study of a semi-human form it would be fair to say Yeo is no Lucien Freud, but he get's the commission and he gets the cheque. It's getting hung in the Drapers' Hall (some centuries old bullshit City of London charity foundation) so at least it wont hanging next to anything I like.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 16 May 2024 09:58 (one month ago) link
Prince William has been named UK's third sexiest man of 2024. pic.twitter.com/uc0omq3bPG— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) May 17, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 May 2024 13:23 (one month ago) link
UK's third baldest man of 2024.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 May 2024 13:25 (one month ago) link