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Rolf Harris Paints The Queen: What Do You Think?

9VSPO From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2410 times:

Television artist Rolf Harris has unveiled his portrait of the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
The portrait, commissioned to mark the monarch's 80th birthday next year, is said to be an "impressionistic", rather than a "photographic", representation.
So what do you think? Silly

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Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55
Reply 1, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2402 times:

I think "television artist" is a bit harsh. Whatever people might think of Harris, he is a noted artist beyond his TV appearances.

She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.

9VSPO From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2390 times:

I think it's pretty cool that he got to do it, he's a popular guy. I didn't even realise the Queen was 80!

RobertNL070 From Netherlands, joined Sep 2003, 4506 posts, RR: 10
Reply 3, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2383 times:

Quoting 9VSPO (Reply 2):
I didn't even realise the Queen was 80!

She isn't.

Regards, Robert bouncy

Youth is a gift of nature. Age is a work of art.

Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55
Reply 4, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2379 times:

Quoting RobertNL070 (Reply 3):
She isn't.

She was born on 21st April 1926.

So, 79 and two thirds. Wink

She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.

SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71
Reply 5, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2363 times:

Great trivia question: Does the Queen know how to drive a car?

BTW, nice to see a portait representing her age more realistically. Sorry limey friends, but your stamps and currency are laughable.

Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.

Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55
Reply 6, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2359 times:

Quoting SlamClick (Reply 5):
Does the Queen know how to drive a car?

Of course. Her old Land Rover came up for sale on E-bay not that long ago. Big grin

She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.

RobertNL070 From Netherlands, joined Sep 2003, 4506 posts, RR: 10
Reply 7, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2357 times:

Quoting SlamClick (Reply 5):
Great trivia question: Does the Queen know how to drive a car?

Yes she does. And heavy cars too. When I was a child we were driving in the area of Windsor Great Park when my father looked in rear-view mirror to see HM behind the wheel of the Rover P5 car behind us. This was somewhere in the late 1960's.

Regards, Robert bouncy

Youth is a gift of nature. Age is a work of art.

Ctbarnes From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 3491 posts, RR: 52
Reply 8, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2357 times:

I was expecting one of Rolf's pen and ink characatures but this is actually quite nice! Well Done, Rolf.

Charles, SJ

The customer isn't a moron, she is your wife -David Ogilvy

Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55
Reply 9, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2353 times:

Quoting SlamClick (Reply 5):
Sorry limey friends, but your stamps and currency are laughable.

They get updated periodically. It's been a while since the last one. Think about it, how expensive would it be to constantly update them.

She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.

LeonB1985 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 10, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2347 times:

I'd have preferred something a little more like this... Wink

TNboy From Australia, joined Mar 2002, 1131 posts, RR: 22
Reply 11, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2325 times:

Wow - and I bet that She can hold it by the edges and make "wobble" noises with it as well !!!! Big grin

Nice portrait though.
Cheers
Bill

"...every aircraft is subtly different.."

QANTASforever From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 12, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2315 times:

Quoting SlamClick (Reply 5):
Great trivia question: Does the Queen know how to drive a car?

As others have answered yes, but she was also trained as a Women's army mechanic.

Quoting TNboy (Reply 11):
Wow - and I bet that She can hold it by the edges and make "wobble" noises with it as well !!!!

As for the painting - it's nice that she's starting to consider her wider responsibilities and employed an Australian to paint this portrait. Why anybody needs 180 portraits of themselves I'll never know, but I appreciate the work that Harris has put into this. Nice one.

QFF

Jake056 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 291 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2306 times:

Nice representation of the Queen. But I think the portrait is too tall and narrow. It looks too "tight" for my taste. I'd prefer a picture not cropped so close.

Nordair From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 14, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2305 times:

He did a good job on the painting. I'm rather relieved it wasn't a nude portrait.

SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71
Reply 15, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 2286 times:

Quoting QANTASforever (Reply 12):
As others have answered yes, but she was also trained as a Women's army mechanic.

I had heard that she'd been trained to drive an ambulance. (Don't mention the war!)

Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.

QFA380 From Australia, joined Jul 2005, 2029 posts, RR: 1
Reply 16, posted (7 years 5 months 6 days ago) and read 2257 times:

Quoting Nordair (Reply 14):
I'm rather relieved it wasn't a nude portrait.

I think the portrait makes her nose look weird, and shes got an devil

stare about her. Apart from her face its a good picture. She thinks it makes her look friendly crazy

. She probably doesn't like it, no one else does either.

QFA380

Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55
Reply 17, posted (7 years 5 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 2232 times:

Quoting QFA380 (Reply 16):
She probably doesn't like it, no one else does either

She doesn't comment on any portraits - ever. She can't really, if she ever said she loved one of them, everyone would notice if she didn't say anything about a different one.

But I think this is quite a nice one. It's quite a warm portrait.

Quoting QANTASforever (Reply 12):
it's nice that she's starting to consider her wider responsibilities and employed an Australian to paint this portrait.

She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.

QANTASforever From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 18, posted (7 years 5 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 2227 times:

Banco -

Your point?

You knew I had to. Wink

QFF

Banco From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 14752 posts, RR: 55
Reply 19, posted (7 years 5 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 2222 times:

Quoting QANTASforever (Reply 18):
Banco -

Your point?

You knew I had to.

Hence the

She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.

9VSPO From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 20, posted (7 years 5 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 2201 times:

I think Rolf would get away with it, if it weren't for that leer on her face. The mouth is too wide and the teeth are too visible. Those gnashers wouldn't look out of place on Austin Powers. Big grin

Jaysit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 21, posted (7 years 5 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 2198 times:

The Queen looks like John Cleese in drag in that picture.

TSV From Australia, joined Nov 1999, 1641 posts, RR: 5
Reply 22, posted (7 years 5 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 2164 times:

Quoting 9VSPO (Thread starter):
So what do you think?

Good grief - the portrait looks like a portrait of my Mother! Funny thing is she is only a couple of months younger than the Queen. (and NO - thank goodness - I don't look like any of the Princes and am definitely not bald.)

Quoting TNboy (Reply 11):
Wow - and I bet that She can hold it by the edges and make "wobble" noises with it as well !!!!

They specifically said in the News reports that it was actually painted on a canvas and NOT on a wobble board. So you won't see her dancing around wobble boarding singing "Tie that stupid idiot Phillip down Sport, tie that stupid idiot Phillip down."

Quoting Jaysit (Reply 21):
The Queen looks like John Cleese in drag in that picture.

Ya reckon? I'll tell my Mum that one anyway! (After telling her that it looks like her)

"I told you I was ill ..." Spike Milligan

Doona From Sweden, joined Feb 2005, 3707 posts, RR: 14
Reply 23, posted (7 years 5 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 2156 times:

Damn! Her Majesty looks like an evil chipmunk! eek

Cheers
Mats

Sure, we're concerned for our lives. Just not as concerned as saving 9 bucks on a roundtrip to Ft. Myers.

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