Long gone are the deferential days in the 1950s when Pietro Annigoni painted the monarch as a stately young woman in flowing robes. "This painting looks like a cabbage patch doll," Condo said of his portrait that was commissioned by the Wrong Gallery for displaying in the Tate Modern museum. "They do have similar characteristics.
Cabbage patch dolls are something every child loves," Condo told Reuters from the United States. Asked what he was trying to portray in his depiction of one of the most famous faces in the world, Condo said: "It is a nightmare picture of herself in her own head. It is an improvisation of her own nightmare.
" "Has the latest royal painter taken artistic licence a tad too far?" The Daily Mail asked on Monday as the tabloid reviewed what artists from Lucien Freud to Rolf Harris had done in the past regal portrayals. "What I had originally intended to do was a stunning nude that would be in the style of the Velazquez Rokeby Venus.
That was my original idea," he said. "It is very difficult to do something new," he added.
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