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Any thoughts on this new portrait of King Charles III ?
Its just been unveiled in front of the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace by the artist @jonathanyeo
Its the first completed completed official portrait of the Monarch since the Coronation 🖼️
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8:18 AM · May 14, 2024
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MOMFUDSKI
(6,130 posts)king
North Shore Chicago
(3,441 posts)jimfields33
(16,550 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,577 posts)The monochromatic look is not attractive IMO.
bif
(22,953 posts)Don't really care for it.
OAITW r.2.0
(25,148 posts)Nice mummy hands, too.
BComplex
(8,182 posts)Weird as hell.
Bettie
(16,213 posts)bathing in blood.
Orangepeel
(13,935 posts)Mosby
(16,522 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,626 posts)It was an 'ok' likeness of him, but the background color ruins it entirely.
What kind of drugs is the artist using ???
MiHale
(9,923 posts)And red is a favorite my kitchens are always red, hides the marinara sauce splatter.
EYESORE 9001
(26,222 posts)Lotta red going on there.
RainCaster
(11,039 posts)Rather disgusting I think.
Croney
(4,709 posts)the artist thought that was the mandated theme.
pandr32
(11,705 posts)Perhaps along one side? Otherwise it looks like a bedspread.
hlthe2b
(102,917 posts)Very strange, IMO.
Ocelot II
(116,473 posts)It looks like he's on fire.
dweller
(23,838 posts)sounds appropriate
✌🏻
mahina
(17,904 posts)It looks like that. But the new Queens is so much worse.
In my opinion.
tblue37
(65,734 posts)sdfernando
(4,997 posts)mahina
(17,904 posts)Freethinker65
(10,176 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,239 posts)Quakerfriend
(5,471 posts)a bit corny.
Also- His facial expression is kinder than his actual, imo.
sl8
(14,477 posts)jls4561
(1,299 posts)hatrack
(59,661 posts)![](/emoticons/yowser.gif)
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,453 posts)![](https://cdn.nba.com/manage/2021/09/charlesbarkley-1568x882.jpg)
Mossfern
(2,634 posts)I guess I'm the only one here - but after the initially shock, I do like it.
TheProle
(2,251 posts)obamanut2012
(26,303 posts)hibbing
(10,136 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,767 posts)![](/emoticons/thumbsdown.gif)
Silent Type
(3,370 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,429 posts)either side of his likeness in the too-red palatte.
Irish_Dem
(50,099 posts)A blood bath or in hell?
Especially in light of his cancer diagnosis, he looks like he has left his body.
Exactly what I was thinking. The blood red background is pretty insensitive for someone who has just received a serious cancer diagnosis and could be dying. I think the artist could have gotten away with the abstract look if the background had been white/gray or some other soft color, conveying a sense of dignified emergence rather than hellish death.
Irish_Dem
(50,099 posts)Except the floating head.
Bizarre.
Rocknation
(44,604 posts)eh what?
Rocknation
Diamond_Dog
(32,467 posts)Its better to go with a more traditional style. Artist was trying to be too out there. Im kind of puzzled, actually, as to what he or she was trying to convey.
Liberty Belle
(9,553 posts)a somewhat abstract not realistic version that raised a lot of eyebrows at the time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gubernatorial_portrait_of_Jerry_Brown.jpg
I don't like the King Charles portrait- too red and too abstract for my tastes.
Oneironaut
(5,582 posts)![](/emoticons/huh.gif)
GPV
(72,413 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(3,545 posts)That could be the cover of a Metal album.
MagickMuffin
(16,082 posts)Oh to have seen hrh face when this portrait was unveiled!
Ponietz
(3,152 posts)Biophilic
(3,827 posts)I havent a clue what the message or purpose of the hellish immersion in red is all about. Good grief. His mother would be appalled.
obamanut2012
(26,303 posts)Just like Charles' official portrait.
And, facially, it is a good likeness of him.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,626 posts)but it isn't as if Charles bears much responsibility for all that blood....
sanatanadharma
(3,780 posts)... disappearing into the background.
Figure meet ground, Gestalt guffaws.
beaglelover
(3,538 posts)jalan48
(13,978 posts)Raine
(30,565 posts)canetoad
(17,271 posts)Evocative of the time spent as Prince of Wales before emerging as monarch. Fully grown butterfly over right shoulder. Face and hands in focus, the rest indistinct but discernable. Good portrait.
Violet_Crumble
(36,003 posts)NanaCat
(2,226 posts)If I didn't know better, I'd say that it looks like the artist used blood to paint it.
IcyPeas
(22,029 posts)Solly Mack
(90,872 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,128 posts)Ruby Soho
(53 posts)demmiblue
(37,040 posts)Rebl2
(13,757 posts)real or AI. Whatever, its hideous.
Progressive dog
(6,941 posts)Nevilledog
(51,686 posts)Progressive dog
(6,941 posts)After seeing the portrait, I thought it couldn't be official.
Donkees
(31,666 posts)Prince William of Orange, later King William (III & II) of England, Scotland, France and Ireland
Prince Carl of Denmark, later King Haakon VII of Norway
Prince Albert, Duke of York, later George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India
Princess Elizabeth of York, later Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
sdfernando
(4,997 posts)If I was Charles, I would be mad and be seeing red right now!
MFM008
(19,863 posts)More red.....
Turbineguy
(37,527 posts)It's awful.
Xavier Breath
(3,770 posts)What the hell that statement is, I have no clue.
nclib
(1,014 posts)I think it makes him look sympathetic.
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PufPuf23
(8,943 posts)reptilian.
Maybe just too much red.
One would think that the first official portrait of a new King of England would be a more traditional portrait.
XanaDUer2
(11,089 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(146,975 posts)Demovictory9
(32,582 posts)3catwoman3
(24,295 posts)...but what's with the disembodied head look? Creepy and weird.
Golden Raisin
(4,622 posts)orange jar
(174 posts)Considering the history of the monarchy.
However, there is a small "ick" factor that comes up when I see it. He looks like he's drowning in blood, and it just reminds me of his infamous "I wish I was your tampon" dirty talk.
Bluethroughu
(5,242 posts)I see 3 dogs, a donkey, and a woman whispering in his right ear??
marble falls
(58,560 posts)johnp3907
(3,744 posts)![](https://i.postimg.cc/0QZH4WK8/IMG-8792.jpg)
blue neen
(12,343 posts)![](/emoticons/roll.gif)
niyad
(114,659 posts)robbob
(3,554 posts)![](https://www.art-theoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Study_after_Velazquezs_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X1.jpg)
although to be honest I remembered it as being red.
niyad
(114,659 posts)Pachamama
(16,888 posts)
in the end
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Ilsa
(61,731 posts)it isn't a typical portrait.
I was more concerned it would look like a Mad Magazine cover with his face looking too much like Alfred E. Newman.
brooklynite
(95,423 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,067 posts)betsuni
(26,131 posts)comment and the serial killer was obsessed with butterflies or moths). Otherwise, he looks handsome.
blogslug
(38,050 posts)I think the way the royal gear fades into the background is symbolic of the diminished British Empire. I'm sure Charles likes it because the artist made him handsome.
surrealAmerican
(11,381 posts)It makes him look like pure evil.
It's hard to imagine King Charles liking it though.
RobinA
(9,951 posts)The red, the face, the weird hands, the disembodiment, the extremism used in a portrait of someone who is about as unextreme as one can get...
Blue Idaho
(5,102 posts)Its bold and refreshingly different.