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thats not leaking blood the colours are just a little stylized 😭 i cant be the only person who genuinely likes that portrait

I said if u squint it looks that way, I understand that it's not the intention bud. And ur probably not the only one but it's certainly a niche opinion. Like I've been racking my brain to think of reasons the artist might want to make it look like he was painting on a meat canvas and none of them are particularly flattering to ol king chuck. The artist wanted the military uniform to fade into the background to bring the man himself into better focus and humanise him. Which. yeah trying to cover over their violent history by humanising themselves is certainly what the royal family are going for these days so shoutout to the artist for getting the assignment ig lmao. And the one fucking incongruous butterfly that was apparently Charles' idea really gets me

Anyway no royal portrait was gonna work for me, in the same way that I'd be pissed if my landlord was like "hey look what I spent ur rent money on" and it was a fuckin statue of themselves, yk? Royal portraits in general are flimsy fuckin propaganda that waste our damn money, and this one is no different to me, it's just a more self-serving version

#apologies for the shinigami eyes link. it's a guardian article #like the look of the painting is kind of neither here nor there to me. like it's a weird choice but I'd hate it either way #looking at ur tags I can't disagree that it's an accurate representation of the man #it was also queen camilla's impression of the portrait apparently. like yea that's definitely him #like yea there's a lot of technical skill on display. obviously. they're royalty. they can afford the best in the business #it's just high quality art in service of a useless subject #and like I said there are some real negative ways that an anti-monarchist like myself can read the artistic choices made #I'm not convinced that he's not on our side lmao #and who's paying for this portrait? the taxpayers? during a cost of living crisis? or is it cash from the duchy he inherited #or is it leftover money from his fuckin tax dodge #like my main opinion on the portrait is: stop trying to make king charles happen. it's not gonna happen #the way the media has desperately tried to get charles the same affection as the queen is pathetic #british monarchy abolished in my lifetime let's make it happen

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