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In reply to the discussion: What do you think about this new official portrait of King Charles? [View all]Blue Idaho
(5,092 posts)97. I like it
Its bold and refreshingly different.
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Very hideous. Not sure what the idea of hiding leaders in painting is about lately.
jimfields33
May 14
#20
That's what I thought! It looks like the artist is portraying him as the devil himself.
BComplex
May 14
#38
Looks a bit like a hell-haunted monarch; but that's likely just a couple of well-deserved feminine ghostly splats on
Backseat Driver
May 14
#25
I recall the flap over this portrait of Jerry Brown in his first term as CA Governor in the 1980s:
Liberty Belle
May 14
#29
I thought of the Crusades, then the Spanish Inquisition, when I first saw it.
flor-de-jasmim
May 14
#51
''It was commissioned in 2020 to celebrate the then-Prince of Wales's 50 years as a member of The Drapers' Company''
Donkees
May 14
#65
Needs little horns to convince the conspiracy theorists that King Charles is a shape-shifting, satanic
PufPuf23
May 14
#68
is it done? i know i have done some quirky 'portraits, but i did add a little more than the face.
pansypoo53219
May 15
#87