Olympics art: on your marks, get set, draw
Olympics art: on your marks, get set, draw The poster has long been fundamental to the image of each Olympics, and will be for the forthcoming London games. As the names of the 12 leading British artists commissioned to design artwork for 2012 are revealed, Mark Hudson meets some of them, assesses what we might expect from each, and over the following pages celebrates the classic posters that have set the bar so high.From its beginnings in 1896 as a relatively modestly scaled revival of the sacred games of the ancient Greeks, the Olympic Games has expanded in scale and scope with every new incarnation to the extent that this noble – and in essence ascetic – tournament in human agility and endurance now carries with it a massive train of commercial, political and, not least, cultural baggage.
Yet we also remember, perhaps almost more vividly, the extraordinary opening ceremony in Beijing in 2008, choreographed by the great film director Zhang Yimou. We remember the Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé song Barcelona from 1992 (though many of us may wish we didn’t). And we remember the posters, the graphics and the whole visual look of these events.
Far from being a recent add-on, culture, particularly visual art, was a strong element in the idealism of the original Olympic vision: a deliberate throwback to ancient Greece, where both art and sport were semi-sacred activities. If this cultural aspect fell from sight for much of the 20th century, it has come back with a vengeance in recent decades.
London’s Cultural Olympiad, billed as the country’s biggest ever arts festival, will see a vast range of activities involving every arts organisation in the capital, in which an estimated 12 million people will take part. Yet it will also see a flowering of a relatively traditional art form, one that has been closely associated with the games from the earliest days: the poster.
I’m standing in Tate Britain with five of the 12 artists commissioned to produce posters for the 2012 Olympics: Tracey Emin, Howard Hodgkin, Michael Craig-Martin, Martin Creed and Bob & Roberta Smith (who is actually one person). Around us are examples of Olympic art from 1896 to the present day, and a mood of excitement and uncertainty prevails. Excitement at taking part in what may be one of the defining events of the age, which will give these artists a far wider audience than most of them, certainly, have achieved before. Uncertainty at following in the footsteps of – and by extension competing with – great artists such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney, and, perhaps also, at getting embroiled in an activity that is often seen as the polar opposite of art: sport.
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Far from being a recent add-on, culture, particularly visual art, was a strong element in the idealism of the original Olympic vision: a deliberate throwback to ancient Greece, where both art and sport were semi-sacred activities.
“The original concept of the ancient Greek Olympic Games was to include culture and they used to give out medals for arts events,” says Williams. “Now culture is included in the opening and closing ceremonies and it's an important part of London 2012.
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Aimed at readers of all levels--from student to classics buff to serious scholars--this sourcebook looks at sport and recreation in ancient Greece through translated accounts of ancient Greek and Latin authors. It examines such diversions as the ancient Olympic Games, athletic clothing, women in sports, dining, dancing, and fishing. Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece offers a wide range of topics geared to students' interests, new translations into readable English that facilitate their introduction to the subject, and a rich assortment of illustrations. The questions following each translation help students understand the passages, while the presentation of contradictory evidence challenges them to evaluate different points of view, both in the study of ancient culture and in their own daily lives. Successfully tested in college classrooms for a ten years, this book provides an excellent springboard for the study of ancient Greek history, classical literature, or sports history.
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