图片尺寸：1181 × 1806px
作品名称：Queen Elizabeth II
中文名称：女王伊丽莎白二世
创作者：卢西安·弗洛伊德 Lucian Freud
创作年代：2001
风格：表现主义
体裁：肖像画
材质：布面油画
实际尺寸：15.2×23.5 cm
现位于：Royal Collection (Buckingham Palace), London, UK
版权信息：Lucian Freud
作品介绍
机器翻译：
尽管卢西安·弗洛伊德因其裸体画而享誉全球，但他的众多肖像画具有特殊价值。然而，这位艺术家从不按订单画肖像，断然拒绝这样的提议。弗洛伊德总是只画那些他感兴趣的人。一个例外，尽管非常有条件，是伊丽莎白二世女王的肖像。艺术家本人求助于君主，要求在他的一件作品中描绘它。出乎意料的是，女王大方地同意了。
伊丽莎白二世耐心地为弗洛伊德摆姿势长达 19 个月，他们团队合作的结果是这幅微小的（与其他人相比）肖像，将英国人分成了两个阵营。其中一位的代表赞不绝口，称弗洛伊德是我们这个时代最杰出的艺术家。其他人则不那么热情地谈论这张照片，认为女王应该因为这幅丑陋的肖像而将弗洛伊德关进监狱。有媒体称这部作品是艺术家最大的失败。
“丑陋”——当然，与伊丽莎白二世的肖像相比，这个词太强烈了。虽然足以说这幅画比弗洛伊德的精神要好。他不受任何义务的约束，包括物质上的义务，也没有美化、修饰或抚平尖角。这位年长的艺术家有勇气描绘出同一个老妇人（甚至皇家头饰也是弗洛伊德后来画的，以使肖像的女主人公仍能在第一时间被认出），她的脸几乎占据了一张很小的画布的整个区域，看起来比所有裸照的人都更赤裸。
原文：
Despite the fact that Lucien Freud has gained worldwide fame due to his nude paintings, his numerous portraits are of particular value. However, the artist never painted portraits to order, categorically refusing such proposals. Freud always painted only those people who were interesting to him. An exception, albeit very conditional, is the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. The artist himself turned to the monarch with a request to depict it in one of his works. Surprisingly, the queen generously agreed.
Elizabeth II patiently posed for Freud for a long 19 months, and the result of their teamwork was this tiny (compared to the rest) portrait, which divided the British into two camps. Representatives of one of them crumbled in praise, calling Freud the most brilliant artist of our time. Others spoke of the picture much less enthusiastically, arguing that the Queen should put Freud in jail for such an ugly portrait. Some media called this work the greatest failure of the artist.
"Ugly" - this, of course, is too strong a word in relation to the portrait of Elizabeth II. Although enough to say that the picture turned out more than in the spirit of Freud. Without being bound to the queen by any obligations, including material ones, he did not embellish, flatter or smooth out sharp corners. The elderly artist had the courage to portray just the same old woman (even the royal tiara was painted by Freud later to still make the portrait's heroine recognizable at first sight), whose face occupies almost the entire area of a very small canvas and seems much more naked than all of its bare sitters together.
