Lucian Freud portrait of Queen Elizabeth causes a stir

[Jan Verhulst]

I voted first and then looked at the thread. I see that I'm with the small group of members who like this portrait and wonder why this is so. I know this is a portrait forum that is mainly orientated on 'classical portraits'. In my view classical portraits are portraits witch do not much more than depicting the object in a 'realistic' way. I associate classical portraits mainly with 'skill' On the other hand I like also -and in fact much more- paintings who convoke 'another world'. This is the case in the Lucian Freud portrait of Elisabeth. Here are a lot of connotations to make (see the reply's ) For me Lucian Freud says a lot more than merely depicting Elisabeth. That's why I like it.
Jan