London Olympics 2012

The countdown for London Olympics 2012 have begun and in a latest Olympic related events the Organising Committee of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games has unveiled 12 official posters. The posters are created by some of the most renowned artistes of UK such as Fionna Banner, Martin Creed and Tracey Amin.

It’s a tradition for cities to unveil posters for celebrating the hosting of the games since 1912. Well I was going through the posters and I find some of them very interesting and some very bizarre.

Here are the posters which are unveiled in London yesterday.

This poster is by Sarah Morris and she called it Big Ben 2012. Poster depicts the clock tower Big Ben in true Olympic spirit with arrows and bows (if you look closely)

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The poster is called Birds 2012 and is designed by award winning artist Tracey Emin. This is one masterpiece in my opinion because it is inspired by the participants of Paralympics and their will to succeed in any condition.

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This poster is called Love 2012 and is created by Bob and Roberta Smith. It says something unique about Olympics that despite being fierce rivalry in winning the game, at the end its love which takes over its course in the games.

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The poster is created by Anthea Hamilton and is called “Divers”. Don’t know what to say about it J

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This is a poster by Gary Hume and he named it rings. I don’t know but he is saying this depicts Olympic Games coming to London (only artists can understand so easy in design but yet so complicated, we did these things during our NIFT projectsJ). The big circle at the bottom depicts the wheel of a wheel chair and the small black colour circle is a tennis ball (both are not circles….I don’t know why they call themselves artists lol)

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This one is by Michael Craig martin and is called “Go”. Well its so easy to make …I think NIFTians would have done a better job. By the way the poster represents all the thrill experienced by racers and by audiences when the race is about to start.

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Now this is what I find weird. This one is designed by one of the leading artists of the world named Howard Hodgkin. He called this poster “Swimming”. Almost all of us have done this in our childhood, probably didn’t knew it has so much of potential. I looked the poster closely very closely but I was not able to find out any figure but in his explanation of the poster Howard said if you will look closely you will find out a figure emerging out of water. Now where is the water dude ?????

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By Martin Creed called work No. 1273. Representing podium of the winner and much more. He does not give the explanation about “much more”. So I am blank on this matter.

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This is no rocket science. Poster is called rings by Rachel whiteread and is inspired by the Olympic rings and as well as from the bottle marks which are left behind in the stadiums by spectators. (Remember these posters are from world famous artistes)

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Hahahaha this one is called “Rose Rose” by Bridget Riley and he is also an award winning artist. The coloured lines represent the direction of the Olympic swimming lanes and the athletics track. How don’t know, which directions don’t know. Probably they are famous because they do call these things an art work.

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It is “superhuman” by Fiona Banner. She is giving tribute to participants of Paralympics through her poster. And if you look closely enough you will find a paralymic cyclist. I am tired of looking closely now. Tell me if you guys find it.

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This one is called “Unknown runner” and is created by Chris Ofili. He is not depicting any of the participant but the common people he find running outside looking through his window. I doubt these kind of creatures exist in London and if they exist then why they call these creatures common people.

Hope you guys would have understand the meaning of all the posters (I didn’t).

These images have been circulated to Queen of the Royal museum and all the leading museums of Britain.