Ad Hoc

Welcome to Ad Hoc, our newest feature on the art of advertising. We are proud to welcome Dr. Richard Zakia as the author of this page each month. For December, Dr. Zakia continues his investigation of how advertising incorporates art.

This ad of a man in a bathtub profiles a painting by what important artist of the Neoclassicism period? (answer below)

1. Jean-Auguste Ingres

2. Anton Raphael Mengs

3. Jacques-Louis David

Richard D. Zakia is Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology and author/coauthor of several books on photography, perception, semiotics and advertising.

Answer: The ad profiles the painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David called "The Death of Marat". It was painted in 1793. Marat had to spend hours in the bathtub because of a skin problem. David honored this slain revolutionary leader with this image reminiscent of the dead Christ.

c. Corinne Whitaker 2009

Be sure to email giraffe@giraffe.com with your comments about Ad Hoc.


front page , new paintings, new blobs, new sculpture, painting archives, blob archives, sculpture archives, photography archives, Archiblob archives, image of the month, blob of the month, art headlines, technology news, electronic quill, electronic quill archives, art smart quiz, world art news, eMusings, eMusings archive, readers feast, whitaker on the web, nations one, meet the giraffe, studio map, just desserts, Site of the Month, young at art,


copyright 1994 - 2009 Corinne Whitaker