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Jun 14, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Today I went to see Jonathan Yeo's much-publicised portrait of the King, on show at Philip Mould's gallery in Pall Mall. A few reflections ... 🧵
First, size matters, not least in portraiture. A human face and hands read differently when they are at much larger than normal human scale. The Yeo portrait looks very different "in person" than on a computer screen. All that red is both more varied and also more immersive.