Tan Tong’s documentation of the 2012 London Olympics is headlighted by the Union Jack and the official logo of the Games, signifying the third time London is hosting the Games, the earlier ones being in 1908 and 1948. It was datelined by stenciled numerals and letterings. The Olympics was held between July 27 to Aug 12, 2012. Two epigrams, on diving and running on water and land respectively, are among the 26 different sports selected. Typically Tan Tong, a large profile of a naked woman back turned and a painting palette, stamped his mark on the painting, celebrating Olympics via Art. Tan Tong was given a retrospective by the Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM) called Homage To Tan Tong: His Life And Times, at its Kuala Lumpur headquarters from Dec 17, 2011 to Jan 1, 2012. This follows another major exhibition, Homage To Picasso, also hosted by SGM, in 2006. Tan Tong was given a French Government scholarship to study at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), Paris, in 1964-1969, and he graduated with a double diploma (Painting and Drawing) in 1974 and 1975. In 1974, he won the Fondation Rocheron Award at ENSBA. He won the Consolation Prize for Painting at the National Art Gallery in 1991. Altogether, he had held 17 solo exhibitions since his first at the Foyer des Artistes Galerie, Montparnasse, Paris, in 1967. His other international solo was at the Meyer Art Gallery in Singapore 1970. He taught at the Malaysian Institute of Art for 26 years, retiring as head of the Department of Art and Design in 2002.