Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday, 8 September 2022, at the age of 96, in her home, Balmoral Castle. Queen Elizabeth II is known as an optimist, adaptive, persistent, responsible, loyal, and loves-peace person. Some traits of pop art from Richard Hamilton can help us to map what pop art is, as he says “pop art is popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and big business”. Reigning Queens is a series consisting of 16 pieces of portraits of four ruling queens at that time: Queen Elizabeth II of England, Queen Beatrix of Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland. Queen Painting (2021) by Cheeky BunnyThe artist mix images of Queen Elizabeth II with a Vogue cover magazine frame and bubblegum, looks like she blows bubblegum.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2022 10:02 UTC