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View Poll Results: Do you like this portrait of Queen Elizabeth by Lucian Freud?
yes 11 15.07%
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Old 02-04-2002, 08:20 PM   #1
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In the fine tradition of much "contemporary art"....when you can't convince an audience, at least confuse them. After all, artsy paintings deserve artsy comments....so....

Lucien Freud presents a work very formal in appearance, but as a single image he suggests a conflict of autonomy. The subject's gaze tells us of the longing but impossible struggle for closeness.

I am especially intrigued by the crown - its edges, gaps, the interior and exterior metaphorical depiction of a wound outside of oneself for interrogation and the interpretation of knowing.

Our attention is continually drawn to the facial contortion as it presents the paradox of the contained and the container all at once in a visual onomatopoeia of the exploration of balance.

Both directly and indirectly, this artist tells us that his Queen has been shaped and manipulated by the media and art world, creating a false sense of the mutable royal self.

The juxtaposition of the bejeweled crown determines the unapologetic, if discrete, color and form of this most disturbing work.
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