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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE RECEPTION
THE WHITE HOUSE
JUNE 16, 1994
For much of the past week we have had the pleasure of
celebrating the ties that bind Japan and the United States
together in special friendship. We welcomed Their Majesties,
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, holding a state dinner in
their honor on Monday night.
Friendship among nations is built on many things, including
an appreciation of beauty and culture.
Every spring, nature reminds us of that friendship in the
bloom of cherry blossoms transplanted from Japan so long ago. The
Emperor and Empress told us that they themselves performed a
similar transplant many years ago, taking the seeds from a white
birch tree at Blair House across the street and planting them at
home, at the Imperial Palace, where four decades later, a white
birch tree grows straight and strong.
So today, it is fitting that we celebrate the cultivation of
beauty, in the form of the arts, with the Praemium Imperiale
prizes.
It is a special honor to have all of you at the White House
for this occasion. And it is privilege for our nation to host a
celebration of art and artists whose contributions to our common
culture unite people around the world.
[Introduce the President]
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�President William J. Clinton
Praemium Imperiale Reception
June 16, 1994
[Acknowledgments (need confirmation): Mr. Sejima and members
of the Japan Art Association; Ambassadors Walter Mondale, Michael
Armacost and Mike Mansfield; Ambassador Consul-General of Japan,
Hiromoto Seki.]
I also want to acknowledge a man who gave us an exceptional
treat with a cello concert on Monday night, Mstislav
Rostropovich, a former winner of a Praemium Imperiale prize, who
is with us here today.
America is honored to be the site for the announcement of
winners of the Praemium Imperiale prizes this year.
These prizes recognize international excellence in
painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theatre and film.
The alumni of these prizes are artists of unique accomplishment.
Among them is the man who gave us
The recommendations for the prize recipients are made to the
Japan Art Association by a distinguished committee of
international advisers: Jacques Chirac, Amintore Fanfani, Sir
Edward Heath, Yasuhiro Nakasone, David Rockefeller Junior, and
Helmut Schmidt (who could not make it here today.
Yesterday, the names of the five award winners for 1994 were
announced and in October, they will be honored in award
ceremonies in Tokyo.
These artists teach us and move us and they give us new ways
to look at our world. Beyond creating beauty, they enlighten, and
uplift and they warn us of the darker side of humanity. They stir
imagination and our souls.
Katherine Anne Porter once wrote that art outlives
governments, creeds, societies, and even civilizations. Art, she
wrote, is what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.
Hillary and I are proud and delighted to salute the winners
of the Praemium Imperiale prizes. Four of the five honorees for
this year are with us here today.
For painting, this year's winner is the French artist Zao
Wou-ki [pronounced almost as one word
Zhow-woo-key]. Born in
China and educated in China and France, his style has brought
together East and West in a synthesis of drawing, calligraphy and
traditional Chinese painting that are nothing less than lyrical.
�For sculpture, the winner is Richard Serra, a Californian
who broke the mold and at the same time shattered ideas about
what sculpture is. His works radiate life and emotional power on
a grand scale and they have given a new generation of artists a
model for inspiration.
The award recipient for architecture is Charles Correa of
India, who has injected sensitivity and vision in planning
communities in poor countries. With his pioneering work he has
sought to improve the quality of housing for the urban poor and
to provide a more humane way to live.
For music, the winner is the French composer Henri Dutilleux
[Do-tee-yeuh]. His distinctive compositions put into beautiful
music the notion of diversity within unity, producing from
instuments both lonely and together in the same orchestra what
the composer himself has so aptly called the "joy of sound."
Finally, in the category of theatre and film, the Praemium
Imperiale goes to the actor and director Sir John Gielgud. His
career has so far spanned eight decades, reaching new heights in
roles as different as Hamlet on the stage, and the butler to a
tipsy millionaire in the movie ·"Arthur." He sent this note, which
says in part: "I have just passed my 90th birthday ... I so
greatly regret having to refuse your very prestigious invitation
and hope you will understand the circumstances."
To all the winners, our congratulations and heartfelt wishes
for many more decades of creative energy. Our world is your
beneficiary. For that, we all say, thank you.
And now, Richard Serra will say a few words on behalf of
this year's award recipients.
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President William J. Clinton
Praemium Imperiale Reception
June 16, 1994
[Acknowledgments (need confirmation): Mr. Sejima and members
of the Japan Art Association; Ambassadors Walter Mondale, Michael
Armacost and Mike Mansfield; Ambassador Consul-General of Japan,
Hiromoto Seki. ]
All week we have been celebrating the ties that bind Japan
and the United States together in special friendship. We welcomed
Their Majesties, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, holding a
state dinner in their honor on Monday night. And as they continue
their tour of our nation, our wish is that they see the best of
America and America at its best.
Whole books have been and will be written about the
American-Japanese relationship in terms of mutual economics and
security, and that's understandable. But, if we think about it,
it may be the beauty that our cultures appreciate that best
illustrates our friendship.
Here in our nation's capital, nature reminds us the
friendship whose gift literally blooms every·spring in the form
of cherry blossoms on trees transplanted from Japan so long ago.
The Emperor and Empress told Hillary and me that they themselves
performed a similar transplant many years ago, taking the seeds
from a white birch tree at Blair House across the street and
planting them at home, at the Imperial Palace, where four decades
later, a white birch tree grows straight and strong.
So today, it is fitting that we celebrate the cultivation of
beauty, in the form of the arts, with the Praemium Imperiale
prizes.
These prizes recognize international excellence in painting,
sculpture, architecture, music and theatre and film. The alumni
of these prizes are artists of unique accomplishment. Among them
is the man who gave us an exceptional treat with a cello concert
on Monday night, Mstislav Rostropovich, who is with us here
today.
The recommendations for the prize recipients are made to the
Japan Art Association by a distinguished committee of
international advisers, all of whom, I'm happy to say, are also
here today: Jacques Chirac, Amintore Fanfani, Sir Edward Heath,
Yasuhiro Nakasone, David Rock~~e~.~~r Junior, and Helmut Schmidt.
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Yesterday, the names of the five award winners for 1994 were
announced and in October, they will be honored in award
ceremonies in Tokyo.
�These artists teach us and move us and they give us new ways
to look at our world. Beyond creating beauty, they enlighten, and
uplift and they warn us of the darker side of humanity. They stir
imagination and our souls.
Katherine Anne Porter once wrote that art outlives
governments, creeds, societies, and even civilizations. Art, she
wrote, is what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.
Hillary and I are proud and delighted to salute the winners
of the Praemium Imperiale prizes. Four of the five honorees for
this year are with us here today.
For painting, this year's winner is the French artist Zao
Wou-ki [pronounced almost as one word
Zhow-woo-key). Born in
China and educated in China and France, his style has brought
together East anq West in a synthesis of drawing, calligraphy and
traditional Chinese painting that are nothing less than lyrical.
For sculpture, the winner is Richard Serra, a Californian
who broke the mold and at the same time shattered ideas about
what sculpture is. His works radiate life and emotional power on
a grand scale and they have given a new generation of artists a
model for inspiration.
The award recipient for architecture is Charles Correa of
India, who has injected sensitivity and vision in planning
communities in poor countries. With his pioneering work he has
sought to improve the quality of housing for the urban poor and
to provide a more humane way to live.
For music, the winner is the French composer Henri Dutilleux
[Do-tee-yeuh). His distinctive compositions put into beautiful
music the notion of diversity within unity, producing from
instuments both lonely and together in the same orchestra what
the composer himself has so aptly called the "joy of sound."
Finally, in the category of theatre and film, the Praemium
Imperiale goes to the actor and director Sir John Gielgud. His
career has so far spanned eight decades, reaching new heights in
roles as different as Hamlet on the stage, and the butler to a
tipsy millionaire in the movie "Arthur." He sent this note, which
says in part: "I have just passed my 90th birthday ... I so
greatly regret having to refuse your very prestigious invitation
and hope you will understand the circumstances."
To all the winners, our congratulations and heartfelt wishes
for many more decades of creative energy. Our world is your
beneficiary. For that, we all say, thank you.
And now, Richard Serra will say a few words on behalf of
this year's award recipients.
�
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