CLICK ON ANY OF THESE IMAGES FOR A FREE STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION OF HYLAND, a digital lifestyle magazine featuring residential decoration, design, architecture, art, travel, fashion, cuisine, good works and reflections.
Issue link: http://digital.hylandmagazine.com/i/117711
this giant of contemporary art painted Her Majesty, she sitting for him, forever memorializing her embrace of contemporary art. Warhol assured her visual life in Pop culture. But an image that most aligns with the youthful memory of the Coronation is the portrait by Sir William Dargie, painted on the occasion of her Australian visit in 1954. There is a radiance about it, one that she has sustained throughout her entire public life. Photographers have also portrayed Her Majesty. Three of them I met, Lord Snowdon (her former brother-in-law) and Cecil Beaton in London, and Norman Parkinson, at a dinner party given by Alice Mason. Snowdon���s images are timeless, occasionally informal as he was officially the Court photographer. Beaton���s Coronation photograph could be the most splendid photographic image of its genre. I was fascinated by Parkinson���s 1980 triple portrait of Elizabeth II, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret and I told him so. Although the three figures are swathed in rich dark monochrome robes, evoking nobility, Parkinson captured the humanity, the warmth and the intimacy of these three regal women. I told him that I was intrigued by triptychs, multiple images of the same or similar subjects. At about the same time as the Coronation I recall seeing on television the McCarthy hearings, coverage of Sir Edmund Hillary���s conquering Everest (on the same day as the Coronation, considered a Coronation gift by HYLAND