The worst creative output of the Olympics (?) . . . so far . . .
I have just seen a link on the Guardian website to the 12 ‘official’ London 2012 Olympic Games Posters.
They all, bar Bridget Riley’s grossly offend me! Rachel Whiteread should be ashamed to call herself an Artist with this effort!
It is one thing to enlist the perceived, and most obvious of, the cream of British Art to do them but to then allow such a horrendous batch of trite is an absolute abomination!
Well done again to the people overseeing this hugely significant (somewhat shambolic) event for showing our creative landscape to be dominated by people who choose the most obvious, and pompous crap, that is to be classed as British Art.
I am appalled!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2011/nov/04/olympics-2012-posters-in-pictures#/?picture=381371506&index=11
The funny thing about the Olympics is that it is almost always an exercise in corporate ugliness. You take a perfectly normal artist, say the word ‘Olympics’ to them and somehow their brain turns into something like mushy peas. It’s just the effect it has on people. It’s a mystery on par with the one missing sock phenomena.