Along with a large pile of cash, medals to wear around their necks, a framed certificate, a black tie dinner with over 1,000 of Sweden's nearest and dearest, and bragging rights that they can lord over everyone in their field--all Nobel Prize winners in every category receive a painting. The art, commissioned by the Nobel committee, is supposed to be inspired by the theme of the winner's work, as NPR explains.
Artists have about one week to get their color selections to a calligrapher, who writes up the certificate in matching colors. Final paintings are submitted by mid-November, before the December dinner.
Of course, the artists all have priorities. Watercolorist Hasse Karlsson, one of the artists used by the Nobel committee, pays close attention to the announcements, mainly because time is tight. And all those announcements that say, "Three doctors from such-and-such country won the Nobel Prize in Medicine today," is not what Karlsson wants to hear. He's on a clock.
"So if they are going to be three, then it will be stressful. So I hope they will be one or two this time," Karlsson tells NPR.
Well, with that kind of attitude, Karlsson isn't going to win a Nobel any time soon. He'll always make a painting, but never receive one.
That is if they awarded a Nobel Prize in art. They don't.
Semantics.
photos: Nobel Foundation
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