05-18-2024, 05:07 PM
(05-17-2024, 08:22 AM)Tecate Wrote: For all my commonwealth friends….
Firstly I’m not excluding anyone else, Americans and otherwise…
So, wtsf is with the new official portrait of King Charles??
It looks like the evil painting of the bad guy from Ghostbusters!
It looks like he’s awash in blood, with a small semblance of humanity (the butterfly alighting upon his shoulder) and a somewhat serious and piercing gaze.
Perhaps it’s just me, but I find it disturbing af.
Btw, I’m still a moron that can’t figure out how to post a picture, etc. even after being walked through it…
Anyone want to chip in?
I see a correlation between the portrait and colonialism and its affects.
But that’s just my 2 cents.
Tecate
I think you've been conditioned to think of many things as being evil -- things that aren't necessarily bad.
Let me give you an example -- snakes. People often associate them with bad fortune or the devil or something else evil... but they are simply animals that exist in the world and are part of the ecosystem. They're pretty chill as pets (I do like snakes) -- same thing with spiders, but people get freaked out about them.
It's just a painting. I actually like it much better than most formal portraits. The past ones were just substitutes for photography. This is more interesting; more dynamic and frankly more honest than a painting of him sitting around or maybe riding a horse and waving a sword or whatever.
Red's a good color. In the East, it's the color of good luck and fortune. It's one of the traditional colors of the British military uniform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_coat_(...y_uniform)
