Posted on 02/03/2020 10:41:27 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
A U.K. exhibit commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz includes works by an artist more often seen in front of the camera than behind it: Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge and an avid amateur photographer.
Middleton contributed two portraits to the Royal Photographic Society’s exhibit of photos of Holocaust survivors with their grandchildren...
In a statement, Middleton said that she wanted to emulate Anne Frank’s “sensitive and intimate” depiction of the Holocaust. But even more visible in her portraits is the influence of the non-Jewish source from whom she took inspiration: the Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer. In both portraits, light intrudes subtly upon dark backgrounds, illuminating the subjects’ faces and richly colored clothes...
Middleton’s choice of Vermeer as an influence suggests a careful, detailed approach to her project... During the 17th-century Golden Age of Dutch painting, he and his peers reacted to an era of great turmoil by focusing on domestic scenes. In a century that saw an explosion of Dutch prosperity, a protracted war with Spain and a transition away from Catholicism, artists increasingly evinced the belief that societal upheaval can be depicted most effectively through scenes of everyday life, and that extraordinary events are most important for their effect on ordinary people.
During the Blitz, Middleton’s great-grandfather by marriage, George VI, regularly visited the scenes of destruction with his wife, exposing himself to the same danger faced by ordinary citizens... Yet just a few years before war broke out his own brother, who openly expressed sympathy for the Nazi regime...
By sympathetically portraying Jewish suffering and enfolding Jews into the larger British narrative of grit and survival, she’s beginning to correct yet another unsavory episode.
(Excerpt) Read more at forward.com ...
PING!
wonder if she did any portraits of her sister-in-law before she disappeared.
I’d say Kate is a good example of class....as opposed to the self-absorbed actress Harry married.
She’s going to make a lovely Queen someday.
This is stupid,,,but...NOT GUILTY!!!
“Heavens to Murgatroyd!”.
“Exit, stage left...”
“She’s going to make a lovely Queen someday.”
Very evident William married UP.
Kate is a treasure.
MEghan on the other hand... Ugh! She turned out to be exactly what I expected (referring to her character, not her race). Harry could've done MUCH better.
Never saw that pic, maybe I’m glad I didn’t, don’t want to diminish my opinion of “those” people further.
Now, that is a tease.... Damn.
I think she had on hose......
That happened years ago
The Queen wears weights in her hems
No doubt Kate has learned this as well
Kate couldn’t be more different than that slut Meaghan. And publicly coming out in acknowledgement of the Holocaust is a fairly brave stance to take with the rise of Anti-semitism in Europe.
You sure it wasn’t photoshopped? perverts have been known do stuff like that, especially with clelbs.
Of course maybe she and William were enjoying the Mile High club and she lost her knickers in the seat cushion. I’ve heard married couples can get a bit randy on occasion.
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