Nobel diploma revealed
The Norwegian Nobel Committee makes two important decisions every autumn, said secretary of the Committee, Olav Njølstad. -It selects the recepient of the Nobel Peace Prize - and the artist for the Nobel Peace Prize diploma. this year, as in 2018, their choice was the Oslo based contemporary artist Vanessa Baird.
“It is a challenge to paint something for an unknown recepient. So I chose a motif from reality. But sometimes, reality is not enough, so I chose to picture two moons”, said artist Vanessa Baird at the Nobel Peace Center Saturday as the diploma was revealed.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded during a ceremony in Oslo City Hall on the death day of Alfred Nobel 10 December. The Peace Prize laureate will receive a cheque for 9 million Swedish crowns, a medal designed by sculptor Gustav Vigeland and a diploma.
The original diploma, used from 1901 until 1991, was drawn by Gerhard Munthe. In 1991 it was decided that the diploma should be given a new appearance each year by means of an original work of art commissioned from a contemporary Norwegian artist. Vanessa Baird was also the artist behind the diplomas given to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad last year.
This years' Nobel Peace Prize laureate was announced Friday and was celebrated at the Nobel Peace Center on Saturday. In her lecture about Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, commented on some of the critical question that was raised about the prize Friday.
"It is of course a risk to give the prize to a sitting Prime Minister. We don’t know what he will do in the future or what will happen after the elections next year. But we do know what he has done allready, and that is a Nobel Peace Prize worthy."
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