Preamble to all candidate artists

If the beauty must save the world, the Italian writer and philosopher Stefano Zecchi shows us the way:
"The challenge of our time is to create beauty. And this depends on our ability to understand the past, and to take it with us into the future, in an aesthetic way"

The modern art olympiads are inspired by ancient Greece while projecting themselves into the future to seek and understand what "universal beauty" could mean today.

This is why we ask each candidate artist, in all disciplines, to first imagine what they consider to be beautiful in a work of art, in the sense of the joy and emotion they feel when they look at it or listen to it.
Then, subsequently, to think about their past personal experience through the artistic creations that they were able to discover in cultures other than their own, in order to create a work that could ellicit a joyful aesthetic feeling in the spectator, whatever their country, their culture and the teachings received.
It is about conceiving in the same artistic work a kind of synthesis of the aesthetic and harmonic currents that inspire all cultures in their universal dimension. If the challenge is met, such a work will be truly universal in its expression of beauty.

And this is why, only the world public, in its diversity, will be able to determine the universality of the works that will be presented to it in an totally anonymous way.