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by Tao
20 Sep 2022, 6:53pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Are we all Trussed up...
Replies: 1566
Views: 1855782

Re: Are we all Trussed up...

mjr wrote: 20 Sep 2022, 6:09pm Truss says higher energy bills are a good thing, less than two weeks after moving into official residences where she doesn't have to pay the energy bills
https://www.thenational.wales/news/2231 ... -security/
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by Tao
11 Sep 2022, 7:13pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Thank goodness for Prince Charles
Replies: 164
Views: 7926

Re: Thank goodness for Prince Charles

Cugel wrote: 11 Sep 2022, 6:55pm
Tao wrote: 11 Sep 2022, 6:07pm
DaveReading wrote: 11 Sep 2022, 5:58pm
I'm pretty sure he didn't.
Same. Maybe Cugel could give us an education?
You've got me wondering now! It was about 25 years ago, as I recall, whilst I was doing a dense course on computing stuff so was eager for summick different by teatime. I'm sure the portraits in the stairwell of The National Portrait Gallery were of Prince Charles and I was (until now) pretty sure they were Freuds - they were certainly in that unmistakable style of his.

I did look for them, more than once, on the interweb but couldn't find them. I put this down to the usual copyright mania prevalent in art circles. (We supposedly have "public ownership" of vast rafts of art yet we have to pay to see it, in gallery or on-line).

Perhaps we have an art historian hereabouts who can clear up the matter?

Cugel
Grateful for the confirmation, Cugel.

You're a mensch.
by Tao
11 Sep 2022, 6:07pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Thank goodness for Prince Charles
Replies: 164
Views: 7926

Re: Thank goodness for Prince Charles

DaveReading wrote: 11 Sep 2022, 5:58pm
Tao wrote: 11 Sep 2022, 5:18pmThat's interesting. I wasn't aware that Lucian Freud had ever painted his portrait.
I'm pretty sure he didn't.
Same. Maybe Cugel could give us an education?
by Tao
11 Sep 2022, 5:18pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Thank goodness for Prince Charles
Replies: 164
Views: 7926

Re: Thank goodness for Prince Charles

Cugel wrote: 11 Sep 2022, 4:31pm

Myself, I found the most revealing view of Charlie to be the portraits painted by Lucien Freud, once hanging on the stairwells of The National Portrait Gallery. Many years ago I visited that institution and found myself barking out involuntary guffaws of mirth at the gargoyle-like portrayals. Most revealing. Yes.

Hello Cugel

That's interesting. I wasn't aware that Lucian Freud had ever painted his portrait.
by Tao
3 Jan 2020, 9:48pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Has Trump just started WW3?
Replies: 121
Views: 4079

Re: Has Trump just started WW3?

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by Tao
31 Dec 2019, 11:22pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Is Labour finished?
Replies: 56
Views: 2021

Re: Is Labour finished?

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by Tao
24 Dec 2019, 6:19pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: ** The General Election Thread **
Replies: 1613
Views: 46007

Re: ** The General Election Thread **

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by Tao
21 Dec 2019, 11:34pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: The next Labour Leader
Replies: 445
Views: 15599

Re: The next Labour Leader

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by Tao
16 Dec 2019, 7:07pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: The next Labour Leader
Replies: 445
Views: 15599

Re: The next Labour Leader

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by Tao
14 Dec 2019, 10:36pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: ** The General Election Thread **
Replies: 1613
Views: 46007

Re: ** The General Election Thread **

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