Wilshire@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoKing Charles portrait turned into Wallace and Gromit character by animal activistsinews.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: worldnewsnonus@lemy.lol
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minus-squareNotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThe painting is protected by glass, so no damage was done to the painting. I read through way too many articles that failed to mention this important detail. http://bbc.com/news/articles/cydd9ye77rmo
minus-squareargh_another_username@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoIt wouldn’t be a big loss. That painting is ugly as hell.
minus-squareDominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoI think it’s a terrific representation of the horrifically bloody history of the British Monarchy
minus-squareAviandelight @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months agoI can’t stop thinking about how someone got paid to make this painting.
minus-squarechuckleslord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoRight? Spit right in the royal families face and they pay you for the privilege. Priceless and hilarious
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoHe’s pretty famous for making portraits. Here’s his portrait of Idris Elba.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months 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-up1·5 months 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-up0arrow-down1·5 months agoNow that is a gorgeous balance of color and brush strokes. So why did the artist choose that awful color theme for Charles?
The painting is protected by glass, so no damage was done to the painting.
I read through way too many articles that failed to mention this important detail.
http://bbc.com/news/articles/cydd9ye77rmo
It wouldn’t be a big loss. That painting is ugly as hell.
I think it’s a terrific representation of the horrifically bloody history of the British Monarchy
I can’t stop thinking about how someone got paid to make this painting.
Right? Spit right in the royal families face and they pay you for the privilege. Priceless and hilarious
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?