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).
The M&M ad advertising their dark chocolate makes use of a dark prison painting by which of
these three artists?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Edvard Munch
C) Gustave Dore
You might also be interested in this photo by Felix Nadar taken in 1855 - 1859 of Gustave Dore himself.
c. Corinne Whitaker 2010
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