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.
He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon...Two Coats!
It makes her look like Ernestine the telephone operator.
At the moment, Bing (Google’s search engine) is refusing to show an image of Artist Hannah Uzor (She’s a DEI hire).
Tatler.................
Artist Hannah Uzor is British-Zambian. Another untalented token DEI, hired just to feel good inside
So now criticizing the painting is racist...or something.
“Tater”? That’s the title of Joe Biden’s upcoming biography.
White folks be plain lookin' (like Kate in this painting)...we need to admit the truth to ourselves.
I think its racist to paint a good portrait of a white person. Good job Hannah.
Ping
Artists can be a treacherous lot, with many Leftists and weirdos among them. Even when dealing with such people, it does not speak well of the House of Windsor and its fabled machine of image protecting staff and loyalists that they cannot assure that the portraits of royals that they sanction are at least accurate and inoffensive.
Correction: Bing is Microsoft’s search engine. Not Google’s.
Tatler
But not a good one. Most architecture and landscapes.
I'm gonna LMAO when they cast some coal black actress to play Meghan Markle, --a woman who passed so well as white that nobody knew she was black until they were told she was.
Because if they cast a white woman who actually looks like Markle for the role, all hell will break loose!
It is a very dry and has no movement or animation. I know it is supposedly a painting, but a good artist can actually pick up on all of that and portray it on canvass.
I think it would be wise of this woman to quit trying to sell it as capturing her soul. It is kind of an insult.
Or maybe that is what this woman thinks of Kate’s soul. I wonder if the Harkles sent her the way to the palace. lol
Right, everything is fine but the all-important face. Many old portraits used a generic everything else, but then made the face uniquely as like the person they were portraying as possible.
Here it is just smudged out - severe - like she just stubbed her toe and said “poop” or something. A real insult.
Yeah, but if I could go back in time, I think I would have bought some of those paintings.
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Another case of didn’t earn it token shop shy one.
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