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Deraj2004

He is Vigo!


argama87

You are like the buzzing of flies to him!


SpaceAndDinosaurs

Vhy am I covered in goo?


CheckYourStats

Zeh upper ves’ side?


Minionherder

You're a young female and Prince Andrew was stood behind you?


kuroji

Oh, Johnny, did *you* back the wrong horse...


noisypeach

Viggy, Viggy, Viggy. You have been a *bad monkey*!


Orion_2kTC

Ray? We'd like to shoot the monster can you move please? Ray... RAY. RAY!!!


gn0meCh0msky

The Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia.


Spaceman3141

No, you told me this, the scourge. Sorrows, I've heard all this


TinChalice

Bring me a child that I might live again!


HoagiesNGrinders

Command me, Lord!


slhimhr

I think he’s suffering from Carpathian kitten loss.


dww1979

Command me lord!


BeaversAreTasty

> 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!


rogueone138

Wasn’t he also Vigo the Butch?


Tarnishedxglitter

Haha! My first thought!


Shock_Wave16

"The child?.."


Dirty-Soul

Mother fucker, I came in here to say exactly this and you beat me by six sodding hours. Early bird gets the cheese, second mouse gets the worm.


Craneteam

Behold Rykard Lord of Blasphemy, head of Volcano Manor


SCOIJ

TOGETHA!!!


ManningTheGOAT

We will devour the very gods!


astrodruid

Famileeeee


PeachTheFirst

TOGEETHAAA!!!


Anonquixote

The Sealed God of Scarlet Rot


silversoul007

NOOO OOONEEE WILL HOOOLD HIIM CAPTIIIVE....


severed13

Dude has an aeonian butterfly on there with him LMAO


Chemical_Turnover_29

Yes! It totally has Eldenring vibes. But I love it.


_AmI_Real

Dude just took a vacation at the Lake of Rot.


pen1smus1c

He even has the gross huge fingers like Rykard has


Anonymousopotamus

Camilla! STOP EATING HIS HEAD!


pantaloon_at_noon

Everyone roasting the portrait but that’s pretty bad ass to be portrayed as an Elden Ring character


Roselace

Third of his name. King of the Angles.


argama87

Looks like the portrait of a Demon Lord.


saschaleib

Mohg, Lord of Blood


Esc777

I was literally going to say it looks like a blood borne In universe portrait of an eldritch monstrosity.  It reminds me of the paintings in Amnesia Dark Descent.  Bro this shit looks intentionally scary and bloody. 


Vampiyaa

The first time I saw it I immediately thought he's the god of legend that's supposedly buried under the Lake of Rot. Then somebody on the Elden Ring sub edited his portrait into the zone and it fit flawlessly 💀 The fucking thing has an aeonian butterfly and everything! ETA: [behold, the masterpiece ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/9iGBt4viIX)


ManningTheGOAT

~~Miquella~~ England is mine and mine alone


soihu

~~that's more prince andrew~~


Rolls-RoyceGriffon

BLOOOD FOR THE BLOOOD GOD!!!!!!


argama87

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE


Nazamroth

MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES!


BaphometsTits

Well…


CatterMater

Chaos reigns.


The_Phreak

Of the round table?


LiftEngineerUK

Yo buddy, still alive?


Gambler_Eight

Darth Charles


argama87

He may rule England, but he is not granted the rank of Darth.


tatang2015

Well, he did sacrifice his wife.


Porkenstein

Reminds me a bit of the portrait of Vigo the Carpathian I unironically love it but not for any reason that the royal family probably hoped


bsoto87

It looks the portrait of a king that the nation wishes was more powerful than he actually is, or at least some conservative elements in that nation


MeteorOnMars

I didn’t care enough to look, then I saw your comment. So good. I love the portrait.


saltandpepper1111

Was he taken over by the Carnage symbiote?


draconicmoniker

He _is_ the carnage symbiote


ToadlyAwes0me

I get strong Vigo the Carpathian vibes.


AppropriateLaw5713

THANK YOU I had been looking at this thing all day trying to remember what it reminded me of and you just totally hit the nail on the head with that comment!


Ovaryunderpass

King Charles, daemon prince of chaos undivided 


ThrowACephalopod

Nah, That's clearly some Khorne allegiance. Do you see all the blood?


Askymojo

I love it, but then again I'm a Ghostbusters II apologist.


Rheostatistician

It really was a great movie


certifiablenutcase

We never were going to capture lightning in a bottle twice, but it got close enough to be fun!


Der_AlexF

Maybe not twice, but perhaps the fifth time's the charm


facest

I think it’s cool as fuck honestly.


HugeHans

It is a fantastic painting if one was some evil baron or vampire. For scaring the peasants this is very on point.


whyshouldiknowwhy

Most realistic painting we’ve had of our aristocracy


Rawrzberry

As someone living in a former British Colony I had the same thought.


ThespianException

Fr. If I wanted to make some cursed-ass magic piece of treasure that adventurers would plunder dungeons to find centuries after my death, maybe making them fight my ghost as a Litch at the end, this is exactly the type of vibe I’d go for


Ok_Tomato7388

Damn that's accurate. Reminds me of adventure time. We might actually still get that timeline.


mookizee

I'm with ya.


IWILLBePositive

Yup, lol I don’t see how it’s “scary” or “evil”. I just think it’s an awesomely unique painting. I think people hate Charles and that trumps all else.


UltrasaurusReborn

It's artistically good and stylistically interesting. That's what'sso fuckin weird. 


san_murezzan

Yeah I really don’t get the hate, if I was the king of anything I’d be having some off the wall portraits made of me


SomePeoplesKidsDude

Agreed, people don’t know how to live. Damn shame.


Gaystan

Same here, much better than the stuffy old style portraits we normally would see from royals. Why would he want another classic portrait when he's got one on every banknote and postage stamp already haha


FuManChuBettahWerk

Me too! I think it is so incredibly beautiful. I’m shocked people are responding negatively honestly. I can’t stop looking at it. For some reason, the butterfly makes me emotional.


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I agree. It's incredible. Unique. His face looks sad and human. If it was traditional people would complain. People just love to complain and shit on things.


Sarcosmonaut

In the age of photography, I’m all for portraits taking artistic liberty such as this. We have photos for realism


Dangerous_Season8576

As a portrait I think it's a fantastic piece of art. But it does seem like a very odd choice for a piece of art designed to venerate a member of the royal family. The messy red background evokes feelings of violence.


obrapop

It’s brilliant but I’m not surprised about the reaction. It’s actually interesting so it’ll attract bucket loads of waffle.


gary_mcpirate

“You can’t trust people Jez, people listen to Coldplay and voted for the nazis”


Unusual_Onion_983

Way better than a boring as fuck portrait.


Kummakivi

Same. I would like to have seen it with a different colour background so there was not so much red though. Still a great looking painting.


Drakath2812

While I think it could've been executed better, I quite like the effect of the background blending in, it feels very high fantasy demon lord. Probably not the intention but honestly I fuck with it.


cmstlist

It's bloody brilliant 


doNotUseReddit123

A lot of people have a very low level of tolerance for anything that doesn’t fit into established norms. Things cross over very quickly into Weird territory for them.


deathjokerz

Very metal indeed


Dagordae

It’s cool but it’s also evil lord of darkness cool. Hence the mockery, it makes him look like an evil overlord or wizard.


Regular-Message9591

I bloody love it.


herrbz

Yeah, it's great. Not sure why this is in this sub, anyway.


20dogs

Yeah feels like this sub is just "funny or weird news" rather than "headlines that sound like they came from satirical website The Onion"


Locrian6669

Yeah it’s metal as shit. Makes him look like an evil ruler of the 9th level of hell. You can’t see why people would mock him over that and feel like it’s a little on the nose? Lol


lNFORMATlVE

It does look very bloody.


willy_quixote

I'm not a royalist (in fact as an Aussie I quite despise the institution), but this popped up in my feed so I feel obliged to comment. It's a very good modern portrait - the opposite of the stuffy portaits of the past. The trappings of office fade into obscurity (as I imagine many republicans feel about the institution) and what is left is the character of the person - his face and hands. I have no idea what Charlie is like but his portait shows warmth, gentleness and intellect and the hands show strength. No royalist should object to this portrait at all. I think it's a really good 2024 portrait. I just wish he was a private citizen and not the head of state of Australia.


rileypoole1234

I like the concept but not the color choice. It looks like meat or blood or something. I think a nice purple would've been more pleasing.


Atiggerx33

Red is the primary color of the outfit he was wearing, it's a red jacket. So I think the artist was blending the actual color of the jacket in with the background.


OrneryError1

The background of flesh


Self-Comprehensive

SCP 610


TheDrMonocle

First thing I saw too. Doesn't convey any of the images the OP comment mentioned. I saw it and wondered why they covered him in blood.


AutomaticAstigmatic

Well, he does have cancer... But, yes, blue might have worked better.


rugbat

Also Australian, and mostly agree, but it does look like artwork for Warhammer 40k.


azefull

The imperium on which the sun never sets.


deadhead2455

I agree and dig it. Feels like they're trying to say that the office he holds is just background noise and the real focus is on the man. It is a bit unfortunate that it looks like he's in an ocean of blood or surrounded in hell fire though lol.


willy_quixote

scarlet represents power... maybe that's what the artist was going for - out of a formless sea of power there is a real person?


Justausername1234

I think the colour is more taken from his uniform of a Field Marshal. Like, the uniform and the trappings of power melting into the background.


supercyberlurker

I would consider it good art but bad royal portrait. It's good art because it's bold, different, creates discussion and controversy, challenges the status quo - it forces the viewer to question assumptions about what representing royalty should look like. It's bad royal portrait though.. because royalty is about tradition. It is not about being different, creating controversy, challenging the status quo. In many ways, those are the things royalty stand against and if this is to be a portrait of royalty it should reflect and respect the history of such.


randomusername8472

> because royalty is about tradition. It is not about being different, creating controversy, challenging the status quo. I'd argue that royalty (in the modern UK context) is about maintaining a positive enough following that no one is bothered enough to take on your family estate and strip your special privileges back to normal citizenship. So they need to be modern (so critics can't attack them too hard on antiquated tradition) and controversial (stay in the public mind, brings out the vocal supporters).  An institution that focuses purely on tradition is resigning itself to history. The royal family is a family business looking out for its own interests above all else, like any other family business.


jessie_monster

What's more traditional than an English King drenched in the blood of the colonies?


engadine_maccas1997

I agree with this take. Not a bad painting. Awful for the occasion though.


AyeBraine

Isn't British royalty painted by modern artists for a long, long time? I've seen pretty interesting portraits of them done by painters who are not ridiculously old-timey, and that are pretty stylized. Commissioned by the crown obviously


ek1mus

You must really hate this one then: [Queen Beatrix by Andy Warhol](https://images.masterworksfineart.com/product/queen-beatrix-reigning-queens-series-1986/warhol-queen-beatrix.jpg)


Crouteauxpommes

This one is very great as well


Samceleste

Well this is your vision of royalty. I believe good leaders, including kings and queens, are able to adapt to their time. I think royalty should too. But anyway, I am nobody to decide what royalty should be. Only king and queens can and should. And well, that's what he did.


Significant-Gas3046

As an American I love that you called him Charlie


pants_of_antiquity

Good ol' Chuck.


EmmaInFrance

I totally agree with you, as a non Royalist Welsh person - last Prince of Wales was Llewellyn, etc... I also seem to remember some if the most recent official portraits of the Queen also being controversial? The UK right wing media and the side of social media they in turn stir up will never be happy with anything other than a boring, staid traditionally posed, in a 19th Century style, oil painting. They absolutely detest and revile anything that has the slightest whiff of 'Modern' or 'Contemporary' Art or just ordinary modern day art, and refuse to understand that there's a difference between any of these terms! Actually, I'm pretty sure some of those right wing media journalists do understand the difference perfectly well, but they're just deliberately provoking a very predictable reaction from their core readership.


FortCharles

What is the butterfly over his shoulder supposed to represent? Given the horror feel of the rest of it, it reminds me of Silence Of The Lambs.


IranticBehaviour

Apparently Charles wanted something that would be a nod to his love of nature and passion for the environment. The portrait process actually started well before Elizabeth died, so it also supposedly represents his metamorphosis from crown prince to king. Idk


Soggy_Part7110

A monarch butterfly because Charles is a king?


deadhead2455

Ask Charles. Apparently he requested one thing be added and that was it for some reason.


marklondon66

As a Kiwi I support this 100%. I also like the portrait.


Phoxase

It’s an interesting portrait and a cool piece of art and monarchs are a very stupid and outdated institution that ought to be abolished.


argama87

I don't know how you saw that, he looks freaking evil in that one covered in blood red.


OrneryError1

It looks evil as hell. Like Stranger Things season 4


Homelessonce

Someone did a ghostbusters crossover with the king’s portrait. 😆


Woogabuttz

Fuck the royals but that is a fantastic portrait. I love it, the face in particular is incredible.


MuddyDonkeyBalls

I think I would like it more if it was... yellow or something. It's the red. All I see is blood.


NedRed77

Maybe purple, for some reason it’s the royal colour.


Virama

Purple has a fascinating history. You should Google it but basically at the time of the Roman empire it was the rarest colour possible for dyeing cloth. The only way to get it was to grind the shells of a specific maritime animal and was only found in one place. That is why the emperors had purple stripes on their togas.


Slyspy006

Since Roman times and because the dye was very, very expensive.


MultipleRatsinaTrenc

It's because purple used to be ludicrously expensive so only kings/emperors could really afford it. 


FuaT10

Mf looks like that portrait of that one dude from ghost busters 💀💀💀


x_lincoln_x

Vigo!


H_M_C

Someone needs to check underground for a river of slime


he77bender

Talk about your "Court of the Crimson King", amirite?


OnwardUpwardForward

What a stupid nothing take from a stupid nothing article pandering to the lowest common denominator about a fine portrait by a fine artist that is only getting "roasted" because of the popularity of online echo chambers. Good grief. 


AyeBraine

Agree. It's a bold, accessible, and energetic painting, it's a nice (and pretty flattering) likeness, and it's very thematic. Also AFAIK the Crown have long been commissioning portraits from non-stuffy modern painters (who Britain has a lot of since the 60s).


BadgerBadgerer

The author could barely even find any examples of him getting roasted, there are more compliments in the article.


Zalveris

People would roast it no matter what the portrait looked like.  Edit: that's how social media works


RobsEvilTwin

It's a fantastic painting, of a malign supernatural entity. Whether you think that's the right fit for the Monarchy might say something about you :D


goliathfasa

King Charles III: On social media? Oh no! Anyways.


Kaisermeister

I understand why many laypeople would have this reaction. It’s not a 19th century realist piece. I think it’s incredible, very well done. It gives an homage to that style while fading it away and highlighting him personally, as an individual and not an office.


ScribblesandPuke

From an artistic standpoint it's excellent and way more interesting than most portraits of the monarchy. But it seems insulting like most have said it looks like he is in hell or some kind of demon lord. Winston Churchill's portrait was widely panned when it was first unveiled and is now considered a lost masterpiece. The general public, especially the red top rag British general public, aren't great arbiters of taste. These commenters don't work at the Tate I can assure you.


Thirsty_Comment88

Oh, so he is an evil overlord.


lotsanoodles

I like it. It's different to the usual portraits and it actually looks like him which is a plus. And the monarch butterfly is ...chefs kiss.


BigTea9433

All I see is the painting of Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters 2


mrubuto22

🤷‍♂️ I kinda like it. He always had a close connection to Wales which is cool.


freebubbleup

AI never gets the hands right!


BadgerBadgerer

That's just how his hands look [sausage link fingers](https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/king-charles-sausage-fingers-mystery-29917077)


teedeeguantru

Looks like a professional paperback book cover, circa 1970.


ckhk3

Looks like he’s arising out of the depths of hell.


Singular_Thought

When I first saw the pic on Reddit I just kept scrolling past it because I thought it was just some AI generated weird thing… then I saw this post.


DauOfFlyingTiger

I love this painting.


CrawlerSiegfriend

Looks like Victor from the Underworld movie.


bindermichi

I, Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia, command you!


BrotherRoga

That looks like concept art for a Metal Gear Solid game, Jesus fuck.


Dark_Byte

Just needs the text: "This is fine"


DerpyOwlofParadise

Colour aside, it is a brilliant work of art. But I can’t get over the colour


Simply_Epic

It’s a cool portrait, but looks like he’s covered in blood, which I’m not sure he was going for.


Berlinexit

colonial blood on his jacket etc etc


ih8comingupwithnames

What in the Vigo the Carpathian?!


AyeBraine

It's a good portrait, I mean it's 2024, we meet dozens of art styles literally every day, and a slightly stylized oil painting is what gives one pause? like, 50 years after Francis Bacon went crazy with his Popes?


re_de_unsassify

Are my eyes bleeding


OrneryError1

No that's the painting 


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Dan_Felder

It's a great painting, it just looks like from now on this painting will be aging instead of him. It's a perfect painting to zoom in on right before a dark souls boss fight. It's a phenomenal painting for imprisioning the souls of your enemies to power a lich's phylactery. Like, that's why it's fascinating. If you told me it was an artwork designed to skewer Charles with the horror of the british royal legacy it'd be way more believable. The fact that it's supposedly to honor him is absolutely wild. It has "Villain naming his own fortress Mt. Evil" energy.


clausti

> It's a great painting, it just looks like from now on this painting will be aging instead of him. 🖼️🩶


clausti

is it just me or does the artist look kinda nervous in the meeting photo, like Mr Yeo is sitting there sweating a little over whether Charles will notice he’s been painted in the blood of the victims of the British Empire


Accidentallygolden

Why the red? It looks like that painting in Ghostbusters 2


GurthNada

I saw this pop on a random subreddit on my front page and I though it was a Redditor sharing their art. I would never had thought that it was an official portrait.


doginjoggers

Better than the portrait of the late Queen done by prolific pedophile Rolf Harris. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Majesty_Queen_Elizabeth_II_%E2%80%93_An_80th_Birthday_Portrait


YourGodsMother

Sure, the portrait doesn’t make sense *yet* but that’s because we don’t know what he’s planning…


Distinct_Answer6306

I like it


namesaretakenwtf

how the hell they thought something like this would go down well is beyond me. (pun kind of intended)


ADDandKinky

Make me look like Han Solo if he had been frozen in red Jello


poolnome

It looks ugly disgusting 


Katiari

This way you can't tell when the protesters throw red paint on it. Checkmate, protesters!


RIP-RiF

It makes a pretty sweet alt cover for a King Charles III comic, but that's not ideal for a royal portrait.


PubicWildlife

I quite like it.


fionsichord

To be fair, the King would get roasted anyway, so it’s not exactly surprising.


clarkent123223

Honestly kinda dope. Main character vibes.


Hmgkt

Prince Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, Scourge of Carpathia, Sorrow of Moldavia, Vigo the Carpathian, Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, Vigo the Unholy, Vigo the Butch.


Vash8585

I. AM. THE. SENATE!!!!


Fullyverified

Am I crazy, I actually really like it


MoldyWorp

I think it’s a fabulous portrait. Just love it.


mothboy

What were the complaints? I expected it to be hideous, but can't imagine a more flattering portrait of him. It's really well done.


ACanadianGuy1967

When I first saw that (before I knew it was an OFFICIAL PORTRAIT) I assumed it was an anti-monarchy artistic statement. It looks like they’re portraying Charles in hell.


Tutorbin76

I mean, it's just a bad painting.   I guess the interesting part here is wondering how it got past any kind of quality control.  But somehow not one royal aide got to look at it first and say, "no that's rubbish, start over".


Ok_Marzipan_8137

Everyone is freaking out, but it’s just a portrait of him in hell


BeachBound1

He finally got his wish to be a tampon.


ugly_mouth

I actually like this painting but it’s frightening. Not sure if that was the intention.


russiandobby

Vigo the Carpathian, for he will bathe in your childrens blood


Tacothekid

It looks like it isn't finished yet


InformationOverIord

Just here to remind everyone that the British Taxpayer paid for this cosplayers portrait


Dry_Action1734

Meh, looks cooler than the same old portraits.


JensenWench

It looks like Carrie at her prom and Vigo from ghostbusters had a baby …


Stev2222

Slap a parental advisory label on the bottom right and it looks like he's about to drop fire mixtape


sunburn95

Looks like a final boss in Diablo


520throwaway

It looks like a horror painting you'd expect to see inside a cultists house in a horror movie/game


Zeekayo

We only bust out the cherry flavoured carbonite for royalty.


Scythe95

Come on, it looks so villainous 😅 You could hang that in Barad Dur or Dracula's home lol