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.
Artists normally paint while wearing stacked cowbell earrings. It helps keep things balanced and sets a tone.
And the sad thing is that there are many, many fine black artists that, by virtue of merit, would have done a fine job on this portrait.
A painting by my cat would be better than that. At least she didn’t have a goat devil face and drenched in blood. What is wrong with Tattler?
Hideous! Is tge artist a DEI HIRE?
Tatler is owned by Condé Nast.
Nuff said.
Oh, and Condé Nast is owned by Advance Publications.
IOW, Deep State.
That’s quite beautiful.
apparently so..............................
I have a black artist living up the road from me.
I often see him painting portraits in the early morning sun.
They are superb.
Portrait looks to be of a waxed figurine.
The Black Adder series was tops!
“Baldrick, i have a cunning plan!”
Because it was done shortly after her reign began it became iconic. It was used on many postage stamps throughout the British Commonwealth over the years. That is how I first came across it as a child.
And Lyndon Johnson said of his portrait by Peter Hurd...”That’s the ugliest thing I ever saw!”
Agree many fine white and black artists but their chances are slim due to the token requirements to make some people feel better about themselves.
A silent order to to obey?
looks like they got what they paid for by hiring it...
Yep. DEI is white Lefty racism of low expectations. It discriminates against people of talent from all races.
I didn’t know you could still get paint-by-numbers kits!
That portrait made Johnson look better than he actually did look!
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