VIVID RED KING Jonathan Yeo’s King Charles III

Para su primer retrato oficial como rey, Carlos III eligió a un polémico artista londinense con una polémica trayectoria. El resultado no ha dejado a nadie indiferente.

by TALITHA LINEHAN

CURRENT AFFAIRS Anew official portrait of King Charles III unveiled1 in May has caused a lot of controversy. While some have called it mysterious and powerful, others have described it as disturbing, satanic or just poorly2 painted. The portrait is the work of Jonathan Yeo, who seems unperturbed by the mixed response3 to it. He released a statement4 that said his objective in surrounding the monarch with vivid red was “to make reference to the traditions of royal portraiture but in a way that reflects a 21st-century monarchy and, above all else5, to communicate the subject’s deep humanity.” He later told the BBC, “All my life I’d known who [King Charles] was and what he looked like, so it was really just a case of deciding what to show and…

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