“It is, in fact, some of the most demanding.”
Artist Anne Gyrite Schütt is aware of the impossible task it is to paint portraits of his majesty.
on the occasion of Her Majesty the Queen’s 80th birthday Anne Gyrite Schütt made two portraits to the B. T. s fødselsdagstillæg.
B. T. meet her in the studio on the island of Lolland where more than 10 sketches of the Queen covering the mounting table, for a chat about how the portraits have been to.
“It is the judgment of the task that makes the task demanding. Everyone has an opinion on the royal family and the Queen, and will therefore also have an opinion about the works,” she explains.
Anne Gyrite Schütt has a history of drawing people, as people have an opinion. Since the late 1990s, she has been sitting by the sidelines, when the most noted criminals were brought to justice.
Peter Madsen, Kundby-the girl and Britta Nielsen have all been illustrated by her.
For the self-taught artist, it is important that the portrait provides the portrayed is justice without to beautify them.
It is also there, she believes that photography and painting differ from each other. Where the photograph is, for example, a heartbeat to a familiefødselsdag, where you sit with food in the mouth, may be drawing to encapsulate how we perceive a human being as a whole.
“If you only focus on each and every freckle and leverplet in the face, is the one that becomes the story. It will be much louder on a piece of paper, because it is chosen,” she says and elaborates:
“But it is not the way we see each other. We see the whole, therefore, it is important to get the movement, the expression and radiation with. The better we know a person, the more we see them the feeling we have for them.”
Although queen Margaret is not sitting model for Anne Gyrite Schütt, is missing, she is not the source of inspiration: a walk in a market in France, a new year or something completely third.
One of the recent situations that have contributed with nuances to the Queen, was when she 19. march delivered a speech to the nation in connection with the outbreak of the coronavirus.
It is here that Anne Gyrite Schütt have found the inspiration for this one portrait.
“I would like to capture parts of that split second where she asks us to behave properly. She says it with a crease in the expression. There is an embarrassment about doing it, but it is also said with warmth and humour, because she knows that she moves into uncharted ground,” explains Anne, and adds:
“It is in fact love. She puts herself in the game to manage something in a direction, which she thinks is for the best.”
Why will be the speech seen again and again and again, so each row in the corner of his eye and corner of mouth can be captured.
“Art for me is when you hit the live. Combination of the physical similarity and the inner being.”
She can draw on previous experience with the Queen, where she, in 1992, wrote to a reception for The Classenske Fideicommis (charity, as queen Margrethe is the patron of, red.). Here drew she the Queen from a lot of angles, while she went around to the reception.
“I’ve hit her before, so it must be possible again,” says Anne Gyrite Schütt.
