thread for KING CHARLES III (regnal name george vii)

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.

The painting itself isn't bad at all

The butterfly is a Monarch.

It refers to Elizabeth’s metamorphosis when she emerges from her pupal state

I just cannot comprehend that some ppl think this is a good portrait!

it's RA summer show quality or substitute that word with shite.

The fat fingers are done well

compliments to the King, them's some freakishly fucked up hands

The inclusion of the butterfly is truly pathetic.

it's cringeworthy, what a fucking hack.

the butterfly is a link to his bluesky profile

his twitter handle is @realjonathanyeo, to fully raise the hellraiser curtain hire @fakejonathanyeo

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:punhfmpogezgazwz6vvt3pja/bafkreibxy3ztthqtalkz45drmyt2iu7fhnvp3zwvxd64vmwdakuwihkege@jpeg

thats right

move over pinhead here comes bangerhand

looooool really fits with the Vertigo style

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

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.

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.

this is the thread where we declare our deathless love for bad art: on no! FITE! oh NO!!

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

https://i.imgur.com/UZFsYzz.png

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.

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.

He hath risen pic.twitter.com/X48QFA9PLb

— 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 (@PolyDepression) May 15, 2024

A psychedelic sea of lurid reds and a clunking monarch butterfly cannot save this superficially observed and carelessly executed bland banality

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/15/jonathan-yeo-portrait-of-charles-iii-review-a-cringeworthy-bit-of-facile-flattery

Jonathan Jones is wrong again

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

(with Ono's face superimposed on it, obv)

similarly carroty fingers too

the painting isnt good as art but its better than a lot of portraiture of important people at depicting a human face

i dont know much abt art but i meme what i meme

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.

Prince William has been named UK's third sexiest man of 2024. pic.twitter.com/uc0omq3bPG

— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) May 17, 2024

UK's third baldest man of 2024.

UK standards are at rock bottom, maybe some ppl feel like it's the closest worldly experience to shagging Princess Diana by proxy or something.

Any clues as to #1 & #2?

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/79/1200x712/secondary/Jeremy-clarkson-5378326.jpg

https://i2-prod.examinerlive.co.uk/incoming/article16429556.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/0_Alan-Brazil-2.jpg

Thought the Clarkson was a joke post but no, he was the actual winner.

Was it a poll of Daily Mail readers or something?

wondering if these results should more properly described as a symptom or a cause of the UK's current state

I wouldn’t have pegged him as a third but I understand some feel differently

wills has been well and truly shafted here

Mock the UK all you want but William has a lot of reach around here

NV getting lucky again.

> Was it a poll of Daily Mail readers or something?

it has 'express.co.uk' in the image url

I wouldn’t have pegged him as a third but I understand some feel differently

oh, way to miss the joke huh

https://media2.giphy.com/media/cPCYjo3Jc1S8v2orAo/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe919r0wa6eo8tu1ghca2mqnu1ibwsna4hz8ab1qt4wz&ep=v1_gifs_username&rid=giphy.gif

I saw one on Instagram where it was turned into the Loveless cover