Anger over Nelson Mandela autopsy painting
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:28 am
A painting depicting Nelson Mandela as a corpse undergoing dissection has provoked disgust and been compared to witchcraft by South Africa's governing party.
The artwork is a parody of Rembrandt's 17th-century masterpiece The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp. It shows Mandela lying in a loincloth while Nkosi Johnson, an Aids activist who died aged 12, points to his arm stripped of flesh. The spectators include archbishop Desmond Tutu and politicians FW de Klerk, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ju ... uth-africa
The artwork is a parody of Rembrandt's 17th-century masterpiece The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp. It shows Mandela lying in a loincloth while Nkosi Johnson, an Aids activist who died aged 12, points to his arm stripped of flesh. The spectators include archbishop Desmond Tutu and politicians FW de Klerk, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/ju ... uth-africa