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.
Well at least they didn’t make her black, so that’s progress.
That painting is hideous and captures nothing of the lovely Kate and her beautiful smile and lively eyes.
This is grade school art.
Tater?
Looks like they got one of her kids to paint it.
Hmmm, not terrible I suppose, but it does look like it was painted by some recent art school graduate who decided to experiment with watercolor paint. Certainly not something created by someone who is supposed to be a master painter. Still not as bad as the bizarre King Charles painting that made him look like a medieval warlord or the villain in some low budget swords and sorcery movie.
Wait for the movie... Then they’ll spring that one.
who is hiring these artists?
i believe Churchill threw his portrait in the fire
Da Vinci knew better than to paint the Mona Lisa head-on. This painting, by dint of its placement, and even its color, is execrable.
Image painted by a black woman with an African lice haircut - you expect different?
TATLER..................
Sword and Crusade shield would be nice.
Looks like a Jr high school project. This is an insult to the Princess of Wales.
It's better than I could do.....................
This painting, by dint of its placement, and even its color, is execrable.
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And so is the “artist” - its looks like one of my childhood paint-by-the-numbers “paintings”.
Not yet........................
Funny movie. Rowan Atkinson is a comic genius ... The Black Adder series was tops!
This must be the work of a DEI hire.
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