The artist was awarded for his portrait of his dead mother
 

British artist Daphne Todd (Daphne Todd) won a prize BP, awarded for best picture, said The Guardian. 63-year-old artist painted his dead mother, who died at 100 years old.
Prize Winner BP earned money award - 25 thousand pounds. Todd became the oldest winner of the prize - a rule that artists over 40 can participate in the contest, was adopted only in 2009.

The artist formerly was president of the Royal community portraitists. She said that she drew her mother several times during his life, and felt it necessary to create and posthumous portrait of her that. Annie herself Todd has agreed to his posthumous image. The artist worked on the painting for three days before the funeral. According to Daphne Todd, the portrait upset some members of her family, in particular - his brother, who stopped with her razgovarivat. /lenta.ru

Grim work directly cool the skin.

The exhibition daguerreotypes in the Historical Museum about 10 years ago there were several pictures of infants on his deathbed mid last century. Terrible things.

And as for the portrait of Daphne Todd: What wild spiritual qualities one must possess to seek from his dying mother consented to posthumous image? I do not know ...

When an artist paints a portrait of a deceased loved one, trying to capture is not altered traits, and his enthusiasm - it is psychological compensation just struck with grief, a kind of triggering a sense of psychological self-preservation, then it is possible to understand - at least, to understand the motivation. But debate beforehand - cynical and inhuman.

Discuss the same process themselves up to the funeral funeral vestments.
And we are often aforementioned Kazimir Malevich was very serious about his own death: even the coffin for the funeral of the artist was made by his personal sketches.

Was personally acquainted with one of the sculptor ... When life made him a tombstone ... the question: "Why would you do?"