Posted on 05/23/2024 5:48:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
Kate Middleton’s latest portrait has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, as waves of Royal fans took to social media to vent anger over the bizarre painting.
Tatler magazine’s July issue features the Princess of Wales draped in a white gown, adorned with a yellow brooch and a blue sash, which many have complained looks nothing like her.
The portrait follows the even more bizarre portrait of King Charles III last week, which featured a blood-red back “hellish” backdrop, more akin to Vlad the Impaler.
The inspiration for the Middleton portrait appears to be drawn from her past looks; however, fans are not pleased.
Artist Hannah Uzor defended the portrait, as she explained the process behind capturing the essence of the Princess.
“It’s really important to capture the soul of the person,” she said in a video posted by Tatler.
“I’ve spent a lot of time looking at her pictures, watching videos, seeing her with her family, and in various public engagements.”
“The process for painting this portrait, apart from studying the photographs and the videos, is actually coming up with a sketch.”
“So once I’m happy with a sketch and I’ve done a series of sketches in my sketchbook, particularly looking at her expression was really key, and so I’ve done several sketches trying to capture her expression, and once I’m happy with that, I can then proceed to figure out what she’s going to wear.”
Shortly after the portrait was published, social media lit up.
“This looks nothing like the Princess of Wales. It’s so awful, it’s disrespectful,” one user tweeted.
Another fan commented:
“Doesn’t look like Catherine at all. If she wasn’t wearing that dress, I’d have no clue who it’s meant to be.”
Others compared the portrait to a “bad GCSE project” while one asked, “Are you kidding me? What is that rubbish of a painting? Hope you won’t sell any of those trash copies … you must be joking!”
“This picture is atrocious,” another declared, summarizing the general sentiment.
The ending of Black Adder Goes Forth still gets me every time.
That does not even look like like her at all.
Both portraits are disrespectful...perhaps that’s the intention.
That work of art could get you hired by the royals in the UK.
Say you did a painting of Princess Anne.
Apparently, it is.
It doesn’t look like something out of a Hammer horror movie, so there’s that
Man vs. Bee was hillarious.
while the painting could definitely catch more of her beauty, it’s not the worst thing going.
of course, being an official portrait painted by a selected artist... i would expect something much more elegant.
this could’ve been done by a high school student.
Well yes, and that is exactly who came up with this creation.
It’s still better than the queer pink Charlie slop
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣............................
Looks like the winner of a 3rd grade art competition
I was going to say high school, maybe. It might have helped if she had posed live so the artist would at least know what she looks like, instead of trying to capture her soul or whatever.
“Looks like they got one of her kids to paint it.”
Sorta of what I was thinking. Something a somewhat talented 6th grader would paint.
It’s supposedly from a world-known artist.....................
Hitler was an artist.
My guess is she received the real Clot Shot and is having serious health issues.
Its not bad. Catches the essence that this whole concept of hereditary royals in the 21st century is absurd. Minus all the glitz, glamor, makeup, politically correct speech and photo ops, Kate just might be a plain Jane ordinary human being.
And in watercolors!...............
A magazine called “Tater”? Is Ron White the editor?
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