If you're not already sick of all the humbug surrounding the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, you might like to be reminded that
The Queen: Art and Image opened at the National Portrait Gallery in London today (
CLICK). I mentioned this touring exhibition earlier this month and showed the most original portrait in the show (
CLICK). The painting here is Lucian Freud's
Queen Elizabeth II (2001), which must be the worst portrait in the show. It's amazing that once an artist has established a reputation his work can degenerate into the most appalling rubbish without anyone daring to say so. The Anti-art Establishment raises him above criticism and any tripe he creates is a work of genius. Not in my book.
