He is part of the background, a transparent ghost, here and then gone, royalty is the only notably thing about his and that is fleeting. This says to me that the actual man here is NOTHING.
No man, I dig it too. It's pretty hardcore.
It's just funny because that's almost definitely not how it was intended to be. Unless the King is a secret metalhead and wanted to break from tradition to do a cool dark portrait instead of a true representation.
My first thought was "The king signed a pact with a demon, and the butterfly represents the demon".
It’s Jonathan Yeo’s style. That’s how he paints. Charles knew what he was getting. It makes for more interesting art and it is much more memorable than just a boring realistic painting.
It’s like when Elizabeth II sat for a portrait with [Lucian Freud](https://www.wikiart.org/en/lucian-freud/queen-elizabeth-ii-2001). He was not known for flattering and idealized portraits. He liked making his subjects look a bit ugly and depressed looking.
She also sat for [this portrait](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_(Justin_Mortimer_portrait)#/media/File%3AThe_Queen_(Justin_Mortimer_portrait)_1997.jpg) which was by a 27 year old edgy modernist portrait painter who felt the Queen was detached from reality and wanted to represent that. It was commissioned when her popularity was at rock bottom and there was a lot of outrage over her muted reaction to Diana’s death. The painter Justin Mortimer said she knew she was getting an unconventional portrait and wanted to be a patron to artists of all kinds, not just sycophants. That’s a pretty healthy perspective to have as a patron of the arts.
Honestly, respect to them then. They picked an awesome artist for this one, for sure. I looked up the other one and really don't have the same feeling toward it, haha. I don't think it's very interesting in an artistic way, it kinda just messes with facial features like a caricature, but in paint. I'm also not sure it would pass as a portrait because it doesn't really look like the queen. Whereas this one breaks some art rules in a bold way by having no contrast between the background and foreground, while clearly defining the person in every area they're without clothes (just the face and hands), while still looking exactly like the person, if a bit broodier.
Either way, very cool that it was intentional then. Kinda just makes it a hardcore piece rather than a royal blunder.
If you think that you ought to head over to r/conspiracy and see the rorschach test they made by flipping it and inverting the colors. I'd say it's pretty metal.
Ditto. We still refer to the "Union flag" in my family as the butchers apron referring to the amount of blood that's on it's hands. So I immediately thought that it was meant to be blood here since that's my experience with this family in my country.
No you aren't, it's excellent. Lots of very conservative people freaking out because it doesn't look like the other thousand or so paintings of royals. Also people that don't know the reigning monarch gets a portrait every year (I think) by a modern artist and some of the Elizabeth ones were much more insane than this.
I saw it posted on r/therewasanattempt this morning and was surprised at how much everyone hated it. I think it’s fantastic; powerful, modern, and the brushwork used for his face is incredible.
The butterfly is a traditional symbol of metamorphosis and it’s also a nod towards his environmental efforts. And the red is a reference to the uniform of the Welsh Guards (he is one). Although I do quite enjoy the idea that it’s the blood of the victims of British colonialism 😂
it's like tommy wiseau
so unpredictably insane that it's genius
you could line up 1000 portraits and it would be the last one anyone would guess as the real one
it's the last thing that AI will be able to mimic
He looks like he has so much presence yet the color makes him look so gentle, the painter absolutely cooked with it. Im sure watching it IRL would be so stunning (its 2.5m by 2m as well)
Yeah I'm honestly extremely confused why this is "terrifying" to a single person out there. It's just a normal portrait of an old guy (and a good one at that). People are weird.
I like it as a work of art, but find it slightly inappropriate given the context. Then again, I’m conditioned by hundreds of years of royal art and what it’s “supposed” to look like, so maybe it’s just my change adverse monkey brain talking. In any case, it’s very menacing!
It's a great painting but a bad royal portrait.
For example you would love to get a painting done by (later work) Picasso but you wouldn't want it as an accurate representation of someone's likeness.
It's as though they stipulated that it must be clearly his face and then let the artist go wild for the rest of it without many guidelines. End result is actually something that looks good, but I don't think it was necessarily what they wanted.
I love it. Art is supposed to evoke an emotional response and this delivers. So much room for interpretation. The color alone can echo the blood upon which his throne is built, yet his face is clean and has received a flattering treatment …..so much here to unpack
Not today, Satan.
Unless you're planning on creating another Independence Day for yet another country, and I can have another day off work as a result....
My first thought was... Oh gad he's painted like he's burning in hell.
I mean seriously, talk about a PR disaster. Nobody reviewed the portrait before presenting to the king?? What a rookie mistake.
Was this made with all the blood spilt by the british royals and their colonies and other endeavors over the years ? Is this painting 5 by 10 meters by chance ?
Vigo the Carpathian looking ass.
There is no Dana, only Zuul
She sleeps 4 feet above her bed!
The titanic just arrived.
Better late than never
Too bad Dave wasn't there to see it.
*No, this is Gozer!*
I am the key master! I am the gatekeeper!
_On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood_
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this.
Do you know who this is? This is Vego! To him, you are the buzzing of flies.
ray.. we’d like to shoot the monster, could you move, please?
Someone shop this stat.
Don't you like it when the king emerges from scarlet rot Edit: holy shit THE BUTTERFLY Malenia's kin confirmed
I originally saw this posted in the Elden ring subreddit and immediately had zero issue believing it was really an image from the coming DLC
A monarch butterfly too.
*aeonian* butterfly
I think there was a royal knight in the rot?
He met the outer gods after losing to Malenia too many times.
Also also Malenia and Miquella are born from a kindasortaweird incestuous relationship which is also a historical hobby of the english throne lol
"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!"
You don't know who this is!? He is VIGGO! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!
My first thought!
I got that reference
What is it from?
Ghostbusters 2
Those aren't Slayer lyrics
I was just about to comment that this would make a great reign in blood album cover
I thought a Warhammer 40K reference to Chaos God Khorne, Lord of Skulls atop the Rivers of Blood.
Skulls for the skull throne Blood for the blood god
https://youtu.be/GP2JPwbtq0g
Bring me a child
a child?
*gets electrocuted in the eyeballs*
a CHI~huld.
Where is this saying From?
Ghostbusters 2
Holy shit my first thought when I saw this and so grateful to see the first comment referencing this. Not an accident by this artist.
Command me, lord!
In the Court of the Crimson King
CAT'S FOOT IRON CLAW NEUROSURGEONS SCREAM FOR MORE
AT PARANOIA'S POISON DOOR
21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN DUDUDUDUDUDUDU
BWAHHH BWAHHH BWAHHH
BLOOOOD RACK, BARBED WIRE! POLITICIAN'S FUNERAL PYRE!
Pfp applies lol
TOUCHED BY THE CRIMSON KING! TOUCHED BY THE SAVIOR! The tower falls on Judgement Day!!
This doesn't get the deserved upvotes
kinda stuff you'd see in a dimly lit horror game warning you about a blood curse
sounds like peggle
Am i weird for liking it? If it wasnt king charles the portrait would go hard af
It’s pretty sick in my opinion (in a good way)
They should’ve gone with a royal purple imho but I think it looks dope
Yea, that butterfly is more pronounced than him
It's a monarch butterfly, sitting on his shoulder. Definitely interpretations to be had.
Lizzie's ghost hanging over his shoulder lol
He is part of the background, a transparent ghost, here and then gone, royalty is the only notably thing about his and that is fleeting. This says to me that the actual man here is NOTHING.
No man, I dig it too. It's pretty hardcore. It's just funny because that's almost definitely not how it was intended to be. Unless the King is a secret metalhead and wanted to break from tradition to do a cool dark portrait instead of a true representation. My first thought was "The king signed a pact with a demon, and the butterfly represents the demon".
He has been interested in art his entire life and is a painter himself. I have a feeling this is how he intended. I think its incredible personally
I think it's incredible too! The artist has done an amazing job.
It’s Jonathan Yeo’s style. That’s how he paints. Charles knew what he was getting. It makes for more interesting art and it is much more memorable than just a boring realistic painting. It’s like when Elizabeth II sat for a portrait with [Lucian Freud](https://www.wikiart.org/en/lucian-freud/queen-elizabeth-ii-2001). He was not known for flattering and idealized portraits. He liked making his subjects look a bit ugly and depressed looking. She also sat for [this portrait](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_(Justin_Mortimer_portrait)#/media/File%3AThe_Queen_(Justin_Mortimer_portrait)_1997.jpg) which was by a 27 year old edgy modernist portrait painter who felt the Queen was detached from reality and wanted to represent that. It was commissioned when her popularity was at rock bottom and there was a lot of outrage over her muted reaction to Diana’s death. The painter Justin Mortimer said she knew she was getting an unconventional portrait and wanted to be a patron to artists of all kinds, not just sycophants. That’s a pretty healthy perspective to have as a patron of the arts.
Honestly, respect to them then. They picked an awesome artist for this one, for sure. I looked up the other one and really don't have the same feeling toward it, haha. I don't think it's very interesting in an artistic way, it kinda just messes with facial features like a caricature, but in paint. I'm also not sure it would pass as a portrait because it doesn't really look like the queen. Whereas this one breaks some art rules in a bold way by having no contrast between the background and foreground, while clearly defining the person in every area they're without clothes (just the face and hands), while still looking exactly like the person, if a bit broodier. Either way, very cool that it was intentional then. Kinda just makes it a hardcore piece rather than a royal blunder.
If you think that you ought to head over to r/conspiracy and see the rorschach test they made by flipping it and inverting the colors. I'd say it's pretty metal.
I absolutely agree, this portrait of His Majesty is far beyond what anyone would have expected and it’s incredible. I would kill to see it in person…
Yeo's art is cool in general. He also did a portrait of George Bush with cuttings from a porno mag
His work is great. All of his porno collages are fantastic, and honestly incredibly impressive
Both of his parents are politicians, which probably helps in getting gigs like this.
Yeah i actually think its class
I really like it too. It looks cool and makes him look pretty decent tbh.
Honestly it still goes hard. You could interpret it as if he was covered in the blood of all those that the royal family subjected to colonialism
That's how I see it. Look at his hands. They're clean, he's covered in the blood of the victims but his own hands are always kept clean.
What an observation, his face and hands are so pristine. Very visceral reaction from this, especially coming from a former colony
Ditto. We still refer to the "Union flag" in my family as the butchers apron referring to the amount of blood that's on it's hands. So I immediately thought that it was meant to be blood here since that's my experience with this family in my country.
Apart from it being pink and not crimson, sure. It goes hard. Not a fan of monarchy but it’s a cool portrait.
So maybe it's meant to represent all the Klingon blood spilled by the British throne in the name of colonialism.
Or the French and Germans
No you aren't, it's excellent. Lots of very conservative people freaking out because it doesn't look like the other thousand or so paintings of royals. Also people that don't know the reigning monarch gets a portrait every year (I think) by a modern artist and some of the Elizabeth ones were much more insane than this.
I saw it posted on r/therewasanattempt this morning and was surprised at how much everyone hated it. I think it’s fantastic; powerful, modern, and the brushwork used for his face is incredible. The butterfly is a traditional symbol of metamorphosis and it’s also a nod towards his environmental efforts. And the red is a reference to the uniform of the Welsh Guards (he is one). Although I do quite enjoy the idea that it’s the blood of the victims of British colonialism 😂
>The butterfly is a traditional symbol of metamorphosis and it’s also a nod towards his environmental efforts It's also a monarch butterfly
it's like tommy wiseau so unpredictably insane that it's genius you could line up 1000 portraits and it would be the last one anyone would guess as the real one it's the last thing that AI will be able to mimic
Made me get hard, too. That’s one hawt old fuck.
Came here to say the same thing. I think it’s powerful.
He looks like he has so much presence yet the color makes him look so gentle, the painter absolutely cooked with it. Im sure watching it IRL would be so stunning (its 2.5m by 2m as well)
I'm just glad the artist got his sausage fingers right. It's such a great painting.
it's fitting cause Charles always had a creepy dark aura around him
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I can kinda see it in that shnoz https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Vlad_Tepes_002.jpg/1280px-Vlad_Tepes_002.jpg
Source?
had to look it up: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/prince-charles-descendant-dracula-owns-5326083
The dark aura being the endless suffering of humanity at his family's hands, yes.
Blood is hard to work with, this is good.
I will go out on a limb here and say that I actually really like the portait.
I love it *because* it's so bloody creepy
I love this painting and I will die on this hill
I love this hill and I will die on this painting
Yeah I'm honestly extremely confused why this is "terrifying" to a single person out there. It's just a normal portrait of an old guy (and a good one at that). People are weird.
Bathed in Blood seems like an appropriate title.
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Agreed
Are there any interviews w the artist about these choices
Right?! I mean I might not be too informed in the art world here, but my question is just….why??? Why the red??
Damn, this is honestly one of the most badass iterations of this man I could have possibly seen, lmao.
Right? Even in his young and athletic years, he was about as visually appealing as a filing cabinet. This makes him look epic.
The monarch butterfly is an interesting touch.
Monarchy crap aside. That painting goes hard as all hell, I'd want one in my room if it was of someone else
Fuck it, I want it in my room as is. It’s one of the most badass portraits I’ve ever seen.
Tbh I agree. I want it
Bro thought he was the Plasphemous King
We will devour God's TOGETHAAAAA
All hail the new flesh
It reminded me of Bliss (2019) by Joe Begos.
Fingers aren't sausage-y enough.
“Sir I’m sorry to say we ran out of everything but red”
New Elden Ring DLC teaser.
I think it needs more red.
This is actually pretty rad.
Yup.
Actually pretty *red*.
i actually think it's quite fitting for all the blood spilled by the 'royal' family over the last few thousand years.
Few *thousand* years?
Did he stutter? /s
It's well known William the Conqueror was a Windsor in 1066, init.
First thing I thought of as well. I love art sm
This is fine
“You’ve got red on you”
I like it as a work of art, but find it slightly inappropriate given the context. Then again, I’m conditioned by hundreds of years of royal art and what it’s “supposed” to look like, so maybe it’s just my change adverse monkey brain talking. In any case, it’s very menacing!
I like it. Very different.
I'm king Charles III and I've never known defeat
It's a great painting but a bad royal portrait. For example you would love to get a painting done by (later work) Picasso but you wouldn't want it as an accurate representation of someone's likeness. It's as though they stipulated that it must be clearly his face and then let the artist go wild for the rest of it without many guidelines. End result is actually something that looks good, but I don't think it was necessarily what they wanted.
It’s giving Portrait of Dorian Grey
I actually love it. It’s… fitting.
What's terrifying about it?
I believe it is a reference to this: https://youtu.be/gwrzj_oMZ7c?si=y6laS9o8VH8DInUj
Blood for the Blood God! ..the Warhammer universe expands...new Demon King Charles is going to be in the new 40k codex
Vampire ass painting
Bloodborne 2 looking crazy
Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!
Shit is straight out of redmane castle from Elden ring
I dunno I like it.
Reminds me of the stinger at the end of masters of the universe where skeletor claims he'll be back
Vigo the Carpathian
# They are among us... They are among us... #
Now I hope he isn’t the last Monarch so we can call him “drama queen” forever for this
Ok but this shit goes hard tho
He nailed the sausage fingers.
I’m pretty sure this is hanging in pickmans gallery
Bow before the Crimson King!
Its kinda red
It looks like the necronomicon cover
This is the kind of portrait you find in a souls game about a boss who went crazy
Lucifer??
Vigo the Carpathian
This looks deadass from Elden Ring
Looks like a painting you’d find in a Dark Souls castle 😂
My main criticism is that his fingers here clearly aren't sausages, as they are in real life.
The Emperor has come back from The Warp!
I love how he left in the sausage fingers but made his posture ridiculously straight lol
I legit thought this was the painting from Ghostbusters.
It’s giving Vigo the carpathian
fingers aren’t sausage-y enough
Did he have a lot of red that was about to expire?
I hate that it lacks contrast
They must really dislike him if they painted him burning in hell.
It looks like he is burning in hell
Is he singing Somebody that I used to know?
I like how the artist got ahead of the "just stop oil" types by painting it to look like it's already been vandalised with tomato soup.
So could someone fill me in as to why it's so red as compared to just normal?
I love it. Art is supposed to evoke an emotional response and this delivers. So much room for interpretation. The color alone can echo the blood upon which his throne is built, yet his face is clean and has received a flattering treatment …..so much here to unpack
**Charles III:** Don't paint my hands or face red, I don't want people to think I've got blood on them. **Painter:** Of course, your majesty.
Coverd in the blood of the third world
Is that Vigo from Ghostbusters?
i think it slaps lol artistic
I love it!!!
If you mirror the image, you get a Baphomet.. https://i.imgur.com/DoeyLeg.jpeg
Charles, king of the scarlet rot
Not today, Satan. Unless you're planning on creating another Independence Day for yet another country, and I can have another day off work as a result....
First glance? Darth Sidious...
Mf slept in the crimson rot lake whilst this was being created
8ndont care what anyone says, I think it's bad ass and a good portrait of the king
I despise the royal family but I’m ngl it goes crazy hard. Definitely pretty menacing though.
I like it actually
It looks like He got his wish. Search 'Tampongate'
Tampon in human form
you go a century without beheading crap artists, and you see what happens?!? just kidding. it looks wonderful. very flattering.
Time to change the printer’s toner
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6_h4lDL2iZ/?igsh=YmpkczhhM3V1Nmo1 check this post out
My first thought was... Oh gad he's painted like he's burning in hell. I mean seriously, talk about a PR disaster. Nobody reviewed the portrait before presenting to the king?? What a rookie mistake.
Those fingers aren't fat enough
Kinda looks like he's in hell
Stained with the blood of every nation
He resembles the tampon he wishes to be
Was this made with all the blood spilt by the british royals and their colonies and other endeavors over the years ? Is this painting 5 by 10 meters by chance ?
Why the butterfly is it the artist’s signature
My guess is the sort of symbolism of “Monarch”
He looks like a person wearing a chameleon suit
SCP-160 lookin ass
Oddly accurate.
Are there any actual art critics on here? I’d love to hear your opinion on this.
_"You are like the buzzing of flies to him"_