Artistic Posters
Ever since the revival of the Games in 1896
posters were designed by painters an graphic artists to promote the Games
and demonstrate the artistic level of the host country. The Organising
Committee created a panel formed by personalities of the art world and
asked them to identify a list of 28 Greek artists. These artists were then
invited to create a work of art especially for the Athens Games, which
would be used to develop 28 posters (a direct reference to the number of
the Games).
Nikos Alexiou, Michalis Arfaras, Dimitris
Arvanitis, Yiannis Bouteas, Christos Caras, Pantelis Chandris, Alekos Fasianos,
Vasso Kyriaki, Antonis Kyriakoulis, Yannis Moralis, Kyriakos Mortarakos,
Dimitris Mytaras, Nikos Navridis, Angelos Papadimitriou, Maria Papadimitriou,
Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki, Pavlos, Jannis Psychopedis, Alexandros Psychoulis,
Sotiris Sorogas, Marios Spiliopoulos, Panagiotis Tetsis, Theodoros, Costas
Tsoclis, Eleni Vernadaki, Zafos Xagoraris, Constantin Xenakis and Manolis
Zacharioudakis were the 28 artists who participated in the project. Their
works of art illustrated 28 posters which were printed in two sizes: normal
and mini poster size. The mini posters were presented all together as a
collection.
Source document: Official
Report 2004, Vol. 1, page 329
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