沃霍爾肖像作品獲皇室待遇,紀念登基60年

BRITAIN'S Royal Collection Trust has gone Pop Art with the purchase of four famous Andy Warhol portraits of Queen Elizabeth II.

英國皇家收藏信託基金已經走向波普藝術，採購了安迪•沃霍爾的四幅女王伊麗莎白二世的著名肖像版畫。

The colorful screenprints are based on a formal photograph of the queen wearing a tiara and necklace that was used during her Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977.

彩色絲網畫是女王在她1977年“鑽石慶典”時戴着頭飾和項鍊的官方照片。

They will form part of the Portraits of a Monarch exhibit starting in November at Windsor Castle. The purchase was announced yesterday, but officials refused to say how much the portraits cost.

他們將構成11月溫莎城堡的皇室肖像展的一部分。這次收購已於昨日公佈，但官員拒絕說這些肖像花了多少錢。

The purchase brings the distinctive style of the American artist to a collection of portraits of British rulers that dates back to the 15th Century.

本次採購把這位美國藝術家的獨特風格帶到了那些可以追溯到15世紀的英國統治者的肖像集合。

"They are in a very interesting and contemporary technique that Andy Warhol really popularized, screenprinting with wonderfully vibrant colors, in multiples," said Royal Librarian Jane Roberts. "They join a collection dating back 4, 5, 600 years. The fact that they are in a completely new technique is not surprising; things change."

“他們處在一個非常有趣且現代的技術裏，安迪•沃霍爾真的很受歡迎，絲網畫帶着奇妙的充滿活力的豐富色彩，”皇家圖書館館長簡•羅伯茨說。“他們加入收藏可以追溯到4，5，600年。他們處於一個全新的技術裏的事實並不令人吃驚，世事變遷。”

Roberts also said the queen had approved the purchase.

羅伯茨還表示女王已經批准了此次採購。

"The Warhol prints of the queen are in many ways the most important popular image of the queen to be created by an artist print maker over the last few decades," she said.

“沃霍爾的女王肖像版畫在許多方面是藝術印刷商們在過去的幾十年裏要創建的關於女王的最重要的流行形象，”她說。

Warhol, who died in 1987, was one of the most commercially successful artists of the 20th Century and used similar techniques in portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Elvis Presley. He created these images of the queen in 1985 as part of a portfolio of screenprints called "Reigning Queens."

沃霍爾，他於1987年去世，是20世紀的商業上最成功的藝術家之一，在傑奎琳•肯尼迪，瑪麗蓮•夢露和貓王的肖像中使用了類似的技術。他在1985年創造的女王圖像被作爲《在位女王》肖像版畫的一部分。