Wilshire@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoKing Charles portrait turned into Wallace and Gromit character by animal activistsinews.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1306arrow-down113
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minus-squareDominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up76·2 years agoI think it’s a terrific representation of the horrifically bloody history of the British Monarchy
minus-squareLeg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 years agoYeah, I don’t think it was meant to be pretty lol
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoYeah, I know the artist said some other bullshit to justify this choice, but to me it just looks like the blood their wealth was built on.
minus-squarePilferjinx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoI like it because it’s hella odd as shit. King, embrace the fuck-my-shit-up results of this glorious piece.
minus-squareAviandelight @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoI can’t stop thinking about how someone got paid to make this painting.
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agoHe’s pretty famous for making portraits. Here’s his portrait of Idris Elba.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoSee, that isn’t ugly. Which makes me think it was on purpose. Which makes me hate it a little less.
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoHe has a lot of upper class clients who he paints just as … starkly as the king’s portrait. It is very much on purpose.
minus-squareAviandelight @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·2 years agoNow that is a gorgeous balance of color and brush strokes. So why did the artist choose that awful color theme for Charles?
minus-squarechuckleslord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoRight? Spit right in the royal families face and they pay you for the privilege. Priceless and hilarious
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I think it’s a terrific representation of the horrifically bloody history of the British Monarchy
Yeah, I don’t think it was meant to be pretty lol
Yeah, I know the artist said some other bullshit to justify this choice, but to me it just looks like the blood their wealth was built on.
I like it
I like it because it’s hella odd as shit. King, embrace the fuck-my-shit-up results of this glorious piece.
I can’t stop thinking about how someone got paid to make this painting.
He’s pretty famous for making portraits. Here’s his portrait of Idris Elba.
See, that isn’t ugly.
Which makes me think it was on purpose. Which makes me hate it a little less.
He has a lot of upper class clients who he paints just as … starkly as the king’s portrait.
It is very much on purpose.
Now that is a gorgeous balance of color and brush strokes. So why did the artist choose that awful color theme for Charles?
Right? Spit right in the royal families face and they pay you for the privilege. Priceless and hilarious
Philistine