Before us is a picture of the English artist Lucien Freud “Queen Elizabeth II”. Between May 2000 and December 2001, Freud painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. The work was criticized by the British press, but, nevertheless, exhibited at the Royal Meeting of Painting. The portrait is indisputable, truthful.
Rough smears, like a merciless time, fashioned the age of the queen, fashioned the imperious face of a seventy-five-year-old woman, long-lost attraction. Images of royalty at all times, artists wrote, most embellishing nature for understandable reasons. Freud did not strive for beauty, but managed to convey the main thing – royal grandeur, breed, unshakable faith in his supreme destination.
