Welcome to Ad Hoc, our popular feature on the art of advertising. We are proud to welcome Dr. Richard Zakia as the author of this page each month. Richard D. Zakia is Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology and author/coauthor of several books on photography, perception, semiotics and advertising. (Photo by Vicki H. Wilson).
This dreamy ad for Selig "Dream Pieces" is a take-off of a painting by:
A) Henri Rousseau
B) Grandma Moses
C) Marc Chagall
Rousseau's self portrait, 1890, is at the National Museum, Prague.
c. Corinne Whitaker 2010
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