The press conference for the 2027 Olymp’Arts was successfully held in China on February 7.
The candidate host cities have been announced: Beijing, Chengdu, and the Greater Bay Area of China.
More information will be released soon—stay tuned!
🎉The historic Olymp'Arts Manifesto was annouced at the 30th Anniversary Celebration of OLYMP'ARTS Charter - UNESCO, Paris.
🔥200+ Representatives from 70+ Countries/Regions gathered together to sign it.
OLYMP'ARTS Annual Ceremony: Celebrating Art’s Power to Inspire Change🤩
On December 4, 2024, the OLYMP'ARTS Annual Ceremony in Paris gathered global artists and cultural leaders under the theme "Beauty Will Save the World."
🌍Paris Olympics | Ocean Photographer
📷A great photographer always reveals unseen worlds through their lens, inviting us into realms unknown.
🌊At the Paris Olympics, Ben Thouard, the sole maestro of underwater photography, unveils the ocean's hidden beauty with his artistry.
🏄In his captivating shots, surfers carve elegant arcs through turquoise waves, leaving trails of shimmering white.
🏆Beneath Ben's gaze, each surfer becomes a graceful dancer entwined with the ocean’s rhythm—an exquisite fusion of human courage and nature’s grandeur.
🌎Paris Olympics | Ultimate Aesthetics
📷Geoff Lowe, from Surrey, UK, is a runner, graphic designer, and sports photographer. Perhaps out of his love for the sport of running, he has a unique insight into the athletics and emotions of athletes.
🎥Recently, a number of insane works taken by Geoff Lowe on the Olympics competitions have attracted attention on social media platforms. The photos dynamically capture the athletes' movements and passionate moments on the field, which composes a poetry of images.
🖌In addition to excellent photographic skills, it also takes ultimate design aesthetics to allow the photographer to find a balance of beauty between the chaos of group images and order of athletic.
⭕️PS: All images by artist Geoff Lowe.
🎥Capital of Art & Culture: Easter eggs in #olympicsparis2024#openingceremony
📷PAGE 1: The chapter ‘LIBERTÉ’ (Liberty), in which Victor Hugo's work is featured, opens with the famous musical Les Misérables, which premiered in Paris in 1980 and was then first performed in London's West End in 1985. The ‘barricade’ scene in the short film is an urban scene from the June Revolution. The final scene is a tribute to the famous painting Freedom Leads the People.
📷PAGE 2: The renowned Marie-Antoinette, the last queen of France before the French Revolution, was guillotined in 1793. Following this event, France officially became a republic. The background soundtrack accompanying this image is performed by a heavy metal band.
📷PAGE 3: The main clue of the opening ceremony featured a parkour runner clad in a veil and hood, leaping from venue to venue while holding the torch. This imagery closely resembles the character from Ubisoft's French game Assassin's Creed, which many interpret as a tribute to the game. The concurrent presence of the Assassin character and Notre Dame also suggests that Ubisoft may have contributed data to assist in the reconstruction of Notre Dame.
📷PAGE 4: The torchbearer stops in front of the world-famous "Mona Lisa," created by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, a masterpiece that attracts many visitors to France. In the video, the glass covering the painting shatters, and the Mona Lisa disappears from the Louvre Museum. The video reveals that the thieves behind this heist are the Minions from the "Despicable Me" franchise, produced by the French studio Illumination. This also implies that this painting was once famous for being stolen in the history.
🔥“The OLYMP’ARTS were created to take up the Art Olympiad that have been initiated in ancient Greece, in 566 BC.”
🏹The Ancient Greeks created the Ancient Olympics in 776 B.C., and in 566 B.C. they invented the Art Olympiad. Since then, the art events have become a parallel part to the sports events, where artists from all city-states had the opportunities to show off their talents.
🎬2500 years later, in 1992, while Mr. Marc Verriere was conducting his research at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, he read a book titled ‘The Eternal Olympics’, in which the dusty but fascinating period of history is recorded - the Ancient Olympics was created in 776 BC, and in 566 B.C, the ancient Greeks created the Art Olympiad, which was to be held every four years and in the third year after the Games.
🎬It was at that moment that, like Mr. Pierre De Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, Mr. Marc Verriere found his life career, and formally started to advance this historical process of renaissance, which was fraught with hardship and frustration.
- On July 10-11, 1995, in Paris, a city with an inseparable connection to art and the Olympic spirit, the World Olymp’Arts Council was established and officially entered the stage of history. The OLYMP’ARTS(Art Olympiad) also welcomed its new life in modern times.
- On June 29th, 2022, the official press conference of the 1st OLYMP'ARTS 2023, took place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the European headquarters of the United Nations.
- On October 6th, 2023, the OLYMP'ARTS 2023 Grandly Opened at the Zappeion in Athens, Greece.
💎The next OLYMP'ARTS will take place in 2027.
💯WOAC Focus on Young Artists Sustainable Development
🌍Young artists often face [Difficulties] and [Challenges] of artistic creation and presentation opportunities, including but not limited to lack of funds for creation, limited presentation opportunities, and insufficient professional guidance, especially those from developing regions.
🌎At the same time, it is a fact that young artists represent the [Future] of art, and some of them will become the future leaders and innovators in the world art filed.
🌏Therefore, we don't want to see those truly talented artists continue to struggle, and we have reasons to liberate them from the harshness of reality. This is at the same time a selection process for us to find the true innovators of our time. Young artists leaders will definitely inject new energy and direction into the development of the arts, and promoting.
#1 Encouraging Young Artists to Demonstrate Unique Artistic Innovation and Personal Expression
#2 Promoting exchange and understanding between artists from different cultural backgrounds
#3 Promoting the sustainable development of the art ecosystem, providing support and guarantee for the long-term development of young artists
🎯One of the 5 Objectives of the WOAC:
“To encourage young talents to be engaged in artistic activities and thereby contribute to the progress of humanity.”
🎧Why young artists.
- Innovative Perspectives: Unconstrained by tradition, young artists are more willing to challenge the boundaries of the art world, thus bringing in new artistic styles, techniques and forms of expression.
- Intercultural communication: Young artists are more likely to access and integrate knowledge and experience from different cultures and fields, who can combine elements and concepts from different fields to create creative and in-depth artworks.
- Application of digital technology and new media: Young artists are usually more familiar with and adept at the application of digital technology and new media, which not only expand the possibilities of artistic expression, but also enable art to reach a wider audience.
- Sustainability: By supporting young artists, we can cultivate future leaders and important innovators in the art world, who will inject new energy and direction into the development of the arts, and promote the sustainable development and long-term impact.
🎹Our expectations.
- To cultivate a group of young artists concerned with the OLYMP’ARTS concept and to promote the OLYMP’ARTS spirit, which focus on the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
- Enhance the artistic level and international influence of young artists, and promote cross-cultural exchange and understanding.
- To establish a long-term support and development platform for artists, and to continuously promote the development and influence expansion of the OLYMP’ARTS Programme.
🎻Our approaches.
- Fund support: Establishment of the WOAC Young Artists Support Fund which provides funding for selected young outstanding artists to complete their art projects and art creations.
- International Opportunities: Selected outstanding young artists will have the opportunity to participate in global OLYMP’ARTS exhibitions and related cultural activities.
- Mentor and expert guidance: The renowned OLYMP’ARTS support experts in related fields are invited as mentors to provide guidance on artistic creation of young artists.