2012 Olympic & Paralympic posters Revealed
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That's better.
I liked Sarah Morris'.
The one that looks like a mix of the old Channel 4 intro graphic & BBC's off-the-air picture of the child with a balloon & a clown.
..Or a Rubik's cube having a seizure.
The one that looks like a mix of the old Channel 4 intro graphic & BBC's off-the-air picture of the child with a balloon & a clown.
..Or a Rubik's cube having a seizure.
Some of those are pretty embarrassing.
Martin Creed must have been taking the piss.
Were these done by the Paralympic athletes?
feck sakeYeah, I liked that one. Most of the rest look like they're done with Paint or potato-printing. Tracey Emin must go home each night, and laugh her arse off while throwing £50 notes into the air.
She'll probably wipe arse with those 50s, then enter the resulting mess in next year's Turner Prize.
The bitch.
Some of these "artists" must be taking the piss. If I could recreate their work in 5 mins, then it's not worth looking at.
Well good for her for being able to convince everyone else.
I still think they should have these events during the real olympics and make it a month long. I went in 2000 to watch and it was fantastic. Most notable event was the wheel chair rugby match between Canada and Great Britain. All I can remember was that we were in with the Barmy army due to the having a few English gappies with us and the place was pumping.
And jesus do they go hard in that sport.
And jesus do they go hard in that sport.
Uh huh, that's great marchi, but the posters are shit.
I could be an 'artist.'
I didn't realise that people that call themselves artists had done those
The big circle represents a wheel on a wheelchair. The small circle (black) represents a tennis ball.. What the feck?
The big circle represents a wheel on a wheelchair. The small circle (black) represents a tennis ball.. What the feck?
A comment on the posters from a Telegraph reader:
I hate Sebastian Coe!
Wow, I've just had a proper look at them...and they're bad. That said I don't mind Sarah Morris'.
And Sarah Morris seems to be a one trick pony.
My matchday thread > these posters.
My matchday thread > these posters.
Bridget Riley's work makes my head hurt.
And I've decided to take up art again.
There's money to made...
And I've decided to take up art again.
There's money to made...
I particularly like Hodgkins piece, it reminds me of when I used to try to paint. I'd get frustrated at how shit it was and scribble all over it. Little did I know that if I kept all of them I could of had a lucrative business designing olympic posters.
'The large circle in the bottom of Gary Hume's poster represents the wheel of a wheelchair and the smaller circle represents a tennis ball.'
I've never seen a black tennis ball nor a purple wheelchair.
I've never seen a black tennis ball nor a purple wheelchair.
Michael Craig-Martin's is the worst, it's like the result of a word association game with a five year old
I'd say Emin's is. It's literally just a shit doodle. It looks like she's done it on some old construction paper with an HB. If it took her more than 5 minutes I'd be astonished. Except I wouldn't, because she's such a shit artist it probably takes her 3 hours to crapply sketch some birds.
"Organisers said that his combination of the word 'go', with a stopwatch "conveys a sense of immediacy, the excitement and anticipation experienced in the moments before the starter pistol is fired"."
At least she actually drew it, Craig-Martin's looks like he copy and pasted some clip art from Microsoft Office.
Art gone full circle.
From cavemen art to the Renaissance then back again to cavemen art.
From cavemen art to the Renaissance then back again to cavemen art.
The Olympic 2012 symbol is shit, these doodles are shit, and the stadium looks shit. What kind of morons are in charge of the aesthetics for the games? I can only assume it fell to the School of the Blind.Gentle commoners. Clearly if you spray fire-hose jets of water on them they reveal masterpieces beneath, masterpieces which may or may not - depending on one's interpretive ability - then be assembled into a collage representing the theme of global warmth. But we ask you to please refrain from acting on this information, as this setup is meant to subtly illustrate another theme of the upcoming games, which is global water conservation.
Kindly,
The Royal London Society of Art Commission and Sewage Treatment and General Confusion Management
Kindly,
The Royal London Society of Art Commission and Sewage Treatment and General Confusion Management
Horrible posters.Some of them look to have genuinely been made by children in kindergarten
" Artist Martin Creed used five single brush marks using a palette derived from the Olympic colours for Work No. 1273 (pictured). The Turner Prize winner said the shape represents an extended podium, which offers places beyond first, second and third."
" Artist Martin Creed used five single brush marks using a palette derived from the Olympic colours for Work No. 1273 (pictured). The Turner Prize winner said the shape represents an extended podium, which offers places beyond first, second and third."
Yeah, hers looked like rough work (brainstorming session).
The Hodgkin one would have been good if he hadn't spilled paint all over it.
This Olympics is a laughing stock, from the moment we used Lisa sucking off Bart as the official logo through to letting these feckwits do the posters. I'd have photoshopped Usian Bolt onto a Constable and used that.
See, to be fair, Anish Kapoor's stuff (i.e, that last one) I don't mind. Some of it I quite like in fact. It's certainly subjective (etc etc) but at least it takes some effort, imagination, graft and design. Whether you think it looks silly and ugly or not is your choice. Just as whether you like cubism or impressionism. 5 colored blocks roughly plonked on top of each other in the manner of a kindergardener takes none of those. It's the art equivalent of playing 3 notes on a toy piano and going "Voila, my symphony." Whether or not you like Radiohead or Pink Floyd or Crush Nazi Death Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime, you'll usually at least have to admit there's a craft in there somewhere, regardless of whether you like the end result. Most of these posters give the impression of having no craft behind them at all. They're basically the Po's Law of Art. So close to a parody of shit modern art it's impossible to tell whether they're a piss take or not.
However, at least Creed's piece has some vague (very vague) allusion to the games with a podium motif. Emin's has no relevance to anything, and is more about her and whatever bollocks she was thinking when she doodled it than the London 2012 Olympic games.
Also I'm with Spoony, I don't mind Morris'. And Ofili's, although I don't like it, has a hint of the Matisse about it, and is about a runner. Albeit some kind of radioactive mutant fishmonster runner.
However, at least Creed's piece has some vague (very vague) allusion to the games with a podium motif. Emin's has no relevance to anything, and is more about her and whatever bollocks she was thinking when she doodled it than the London 2012 Olympic games.
Also I'm with Spoony, I don't mind Morris'. And Ofili's, although I don't like it, has a hint of the Matisse about it, and is about a runner. Albeit some kind of radioactive mutant fishmonster runner.