![]() In contrast to his earlier prints where the appearance of impersonal, mechanical reproduction was essential to their meaning, these interventions in the image gave the work a deliberately ‘artistic’ look. Warhol began working in this style in the mid-1970s, fragmenting the image with various overlaid shapes and patches of color. This print has a primarily red background, and features graphic shapes printed from separate screens. The same basic image of each queen appears in each of her four prints but they vary in color. The photographic silkscreen technique used is central to Warhol’s practice, employed in both his prints and paintings. ![]() ![]() Queen Elizabeth’s portrait is made from a photograph taken in 1977 for her Silver Jubilee. ![]() We should get rid of it.’ But the anti-monarchists underestimate the way the monarchy is part of Dutch life, of being Dutch.Queen Beatrix Of The Netherlands (II 341) by Andy Warhol If you are rational you say: ‘This is nonsense. “The Dutch don’t want to do away with the monarchy. “Monarchy is a big part of our sense of ourselves,” said Bas Heijne, a prominent Dutch commentator. Opinion polls, however, show overwhelming support for the institution. On Tuesday, an anti-monarchist, Hans Maessen, stood in Dam Square waving a sign saying, “No Monarchy, More Democracy.” Instead of sporting orange like those around him, he wore a white shirt that said, “I Don’t Want Him.” He conceded that the balance of opinion was running against his cause but said even republicans liked a good party. The new king is also Europe’s youngest monarch, and as such he has vowed that he and Queen Maxima, 41, will not be “protocol fetishists.” Dutch news media reported that the queen will attend the opening of a conference this summer on same-sex marriage, which has been legal here for years. He has mostly kept his views on society and politics to himself. He is now widely seen as a sober-minded and responsible professional with a knack for connecting with ordinary people, Dutch experts said, but is also regarded as far less cerebral than his mother. More recently, Willem-Alexander has recovered from a scandal over his purchase of a holiday villa in Mozambique, which he sold last year. Some of the cheers for the royal trio reflected the popularity of the new queen, who had a career as an investment banker before marrying Willem-Alexander in 2002, adding a dash of glamour and romance to an otherwise low-key and at times dowdy royal family. Paying tribute to his mother and promising to continue her course, Willem-Alexander, 46, stressed the need to respect diversity and promised that “however varied our backgrounds, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands everyone can have a voice and can contribute to society on an equal footing.” Unlike royal rituals in England, there was no religious blessing or coronation. In the early afternoon, the crowd in Dam Square roared as King Willem-Alexander, trailing a long fur-trimmed cape, and his wife, Queen Maxima, entered the 15th-century Nieuwe Kerk, or New Church, next to the royal palace for the investiture ceremony. After signing the formal declaration of abdication shortly after 10 a.m., Beatrix, the new king and his Argentine-born wife emerged onto a flower-bedecked balcony to cheers from the crowd. “They are missing something.”īeatrix announced in January that she would step down to make way for a younger generation. “Look at the countries that don’t have royalty,” he said. In contrast to the British royal family, he said, Dutch royals are far less formal, and they are in tune with the open, easygoing spirit of the Netherlands. He added: “The monarchy is a point of stability and unity. The day’s events, a mix of tightly choreographed official pageantry and boisterous street parties across Amsterdam, helped lift the gloom created by a slumping economy, unpopular austerity measures and growing public recognition that, as the new king noted in an afternoon address, “it now seems less self-evident that the next generation will be better off than the last.” Many had gathered for hours, clad in orange, the royal color, to watch the brief, long-planned and relatively low-key event on large television screens. Seated on a gilded chair and flanked by the Dutch cabinet, Beatrix, 75, became the third successive Dutch queen to abdicate, changing her title to princess as supporters celebrating the continuity of the monarchy thronged Dam Square outside the palace. AMSTERDAM - To the cheers of tens of thousands of people crammed shoulder to shoulder outside the royal palace here, Willem-Alexander of the House of Orange-Nassau became the Netherlands’ first king in 123 years on Tuesday as his mother, Queen Beatrix, ended a 33-year reign with the stroke of a pen, signing the act of abdication in an ornate chamber at the palace.
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