Tag: brands

The Power of Product Placement

It all started when E.T. was lured from his hiding place using Reese’s Pieces. While back then Hershey, the manufacturer of Reese’s Pieces, did not pay to have their product featured in…

Product placement exhibition at Gallery 1988

In 2011 I stumbled upon Alex Gross, an American painter of Pop Surrealism movement whose opus includes paintings that involve brands. In autumn of 2010 Gross had an exhibition Discrepancies in Jonathan…

Product placement in pictures – The Hunger Games

“When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called…

Nicklas Bendtner, Paddy Power and other goal celebrations

When Danish striker Nicklas Bendtner scored his second goal vs Portugal in the European Football Championship a few days ago, he lifted his jersey and lowered his shorts. There wasn’t wearing anything…

Brands on paintings 2: Alex Gross in the TV show Castle

I’ve already written about an American painter Alex Gross who included brands and logos on several of his paintings. Alex Gross is an author in the Pop Surrealism movement. As I stated…

Brands on paintings

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. It employed aspects of mass culture, such as advertising,…