Saturday, July 28, 2012

Saturday Salon: Olympic Arts

Design: Jean Droit





Design: Ilmari Sysimetsa

Designer: Orsi





Design: Walter Herr

Design: John Sjurd





Design: Armando Testa





Design: Primo Angelli

Design: Tom Wesselman

I've scoured a million online sites (well, maybe not a whole million) to bring you a nice bunch of well designed, well-executed Olympic posters featuring terrific artwork. The search was definitely worth it.
I've culled these from all over the net and I make no claim to owning any copyrights. I post these for our mutual artistic enjoyment and education. Where possible I've listed artist's information.


Tokyo Plastic Studio

15 comments:

  1. I love Olympic art posters. You've displayed a great collection here. Thanks.

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  2. Thank you for these images. There is so much more to enjoy about the games besides the games themselves.

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  3. Very nice posters.

    I wonder when women and women's sports came into the picture. So many of the posters' themes revolve around men.

    Poster art is a whole genre in and of itself. It really can be striking.

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  4. Love them. I sometimes wish the modern posters looked like this.

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  5. Great collection - thanks for assembling them, it must have take you a long time.

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  6. It's interesting to see the graphic design evolving in these posters — I can't decide which I like best, but for me, it's between the first French poster and the Atlanta poster.

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  7. You're welcome, Jacqueline and Caftan Woman. :)

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  8. Kathy: These were the best posters I could find online regardless of gender. I am not an equal opportunity blogger - ha!

    I do my best.

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  9. Well, I did include a couple of modern ones. But I'm like you, Ryan, I love the older ones best.

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  10. Rosemary: You're welcome. Actually, just a few hours or so. If I'd spent some real time on it, I probably could have found many more. :)

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  11. I like those too, Mark. But I also like the equestrian one and the odd one with the foot. I tried to verify the artwork but couldn't. It looks so much like Seymour Chwast or Isidore Seltzer. But couldn't verifyy.

    There were a beautifully designed one or two for the 1938 (or was it 36?) Munich Olympics (with Hitler in attendance) but I didn't want to include those.

    There was a bit of artwork controversy for the Stockholm 1912 poster - the artist had left the man in front completely nude, but had to add the telltale ribbon at the Olympic committee's insistance.

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  12. You have great taste and picked very good posters.

    In general, I was just wondering when women were allowed to compete.

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  13. Great stuff, Yvette! I never imagined Olympics posters look as marvellous as these. The 1932 poster with the Red Indians is out of this world. Now I hope you'll do one on mystery novels surrounding the Games. I can't think of any.

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  14. The date was 1900, Kathy. Believe it or not. I thought it was later.

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  15. Prashant, didn't do mystery novels set at the Olympics....Can't think of any off the top of my head.

    But I did do a movie. See today's post. :)

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