遙想百多年前藝術盎林匹克賽(They Used to Award Olympic Medals for Art 2024) 古柏坦男爵皮耶·德·弗雷迪（法語：Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin，1863—1937）1906年倡議" competitions in architecture, sculpture, painting, music and literature", .....江文也 1936

The Grand Palais in Paris was home to the arts portion of the 1924 Olympics. Among the pieces on display was the Discus Thrower (foreground), which won the gold medal.Credit...Costas Dimitriadis Archives, Collection Katia Iakovidou and Yiannis Anagnostou

They Used to Award Olympic Medals for Art?

The founder of the modern Games thought they should honor both body and mind. But the tradition died years ago, and the winning artworks are largely forgotten.

The Grand Palais in Paris was home to the arts portion of the 1924 Olympics. Among the pieces on display was the Discus Thrower (foreground), which won the gold medal.Credit...Costas Dimitriadis Archives, Collection Katia Iakovidou and Yiannis Anagnostou

A vintage French postcard for the 1924 Paris Olympics. At the closing ceremony, the first held at an Olympics, Coubertin said arts contests at the Olympics “must continue.” Credit...Popperfoto, via Getty Images

In 1906, Coubertin invited dozens of artists and art figures to the Comédie Française in Paris. He proposed competitions in architecture, sculpture, painting, music and literature, “designed to be awarded every four years for unpublished works directly inspired by the idea of sport.”

古柏坦男爵皮耶·德·弗雷迪（法語：Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin，1863年1月1日—1937年9月2日），現代奧林匹克運動會的發起人，1896年至1925年任國際奧林匹克委員會第二任主席，國際奧林匹克委員會終身名譽主席、奧林匹克會徽、奧林匹克會旗設計者。他終生倡導奧林匹克精神，被譽為「現代奧林匹克之父」。古柏坦不僅是國際體育活動家，同時也是卓有成就的教育家和歷史學家。

 Pierre de Coubertin ... He is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. He was particularly active in promoting the introduction of sport in French schools ...

A postcard with an early copy of the Discus Thrower in front of Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, where the statue has stood for nearly a century.Credit...Costas Dimitriadis Archives, Collection Katia Iakovidou and Yiannis Anagnostou

“There is need for something else besides athleticism and sport,” he said. “We want the presence of national genius, the collaboration of the Muses, the cult of beauty, all the display pertaining to the strong symbolism incarnate in the past by the Olympic Games and which must continue to be represented in our modern times.”

「除了運動能力和運動之外，還需要其他東西，」他說。 “我們希望民族天才的存在、繆斯女神的合作、對美的崇拜，以及所有與過去奧運會所體現的強烈象徵意義相關的展示，這些都必須在我們的現代繼續得到體現。”