Jonathan Yeo’s King Charles III: Vivid Red King

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.

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+ to unveil: desvelar + poorly: mal, pésimamente + mixed response: respuesta desigual + to release a statement: emitir un comunicado + above all else: por encima de todo + slightly: ligeramente + in the early 2000s: a principio de los 2000 + high-profile people: gente importante + sittings: sesiones posando + to hover: sobrevolar + mildly: moderadamente + treasonous: traidor
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Este artículo pertenece al número de August 2024 de la revista Speak Up.

Anew official portrait of King Charles III unveiled + to unveil: desvelar 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 poorly + poorly: mal, pésimamente painted. The portrait is the work of Jonathan Yeo, who seems unperturbed by the mixed response + mixed response: respuesta desigual to it. He released a statement + to release a statement: emitir un comunicado 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 else + above all else: por encima de todo , 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 trying to slightly + slightly: ligeramente channel who he seems to be now.”

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Born in London in 1970, Yeo is considered one of the world’s most influential portrait painters. He became famous in the early 2000s + in the early 2000s: a principio de los 2000  for his paintings of high-profile people + high-profile people: gente importante : in 2007, he notoriously created an unauthorised portrait of US president George W. Bush using pornographic images cut out of magazines. Yeo has also created authorised portraits of many iconic figures, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman, Idris Elba, and Paris Hilton, British naturalist Sir David Attenborough and royals Prince Philip and Queen Camilla. 

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When Yeo began working on the portrait of Charles III in 2021, Queen Elizabeth II was still alive and Charles was still the Prince of Wales. Over the next few years —during which the Queen died and Charles became king — Yeo and Charles met four times for sittings + sittings: sesiones posando . The portrait gradually evolved, as Yeo worked on it at his London studio, before being revealed at Buckingham Palace in May.

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In the portrait, the King is wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards, has a sword in his hand, and a butterfly — a symbol, says Yeo, of both his metamorphosis from prince to king and his interest in the environment — hovering + to hover: sobrevolar above his shoulder. Yeo told the BBC that the King “was initially mildly + mildly: moderadamente surprised by the strong colour”, but seemed to approve of the portrait, and joked, “If this was seen as treasonous + treasonous: traidor , I could literally pay for it with my head…”  

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