Most Olympics "have only one official poster," according to Stephen Wade of the AP. The Rio de Janeiro Games "will have 13, a collection meant to showcase the diversity of Latin America's largest country." The collection, composed by 12 Brazilian artists and a Colombian, "went on display on Tuesday at the Museum of Tomorrow, the modernist ship-like building designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and set in Rio's renovated port area." Rio Olympics Dir of Culture Carla Camurati said that "the posters were meant to highlight the variations in a country of 200 million that is made up former African slaves, native peoples, Europeans from Portugal and across Europe, Japanese -- and mixtures of many more." Camurati said, "It's really hard for us in Brazil to choose one artist to represent the Olympic Games, or represent the official posters." The posters -- "mostly in hues of bright yellow, green, red and blue -- focus on some of Rio's classic images: a muscled runner on Copacabana Beach, a dark-skinned youth in a Rio favela -- or slum -- and motifs tied to fish, nature and the sea." Camurati said that "the posters will remain in the museum until July 22." They go then to Deodoro in northern Rio, "the second-largest cluster of Olympic venues." After that, they will find "permanent homes in area schools" (AP, 7/12).
