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Art Direction – Brand Of The Year Vote By Daniel Pelavin

The Daily Heller: What is the Brand of the Year?

Branding and brand strategizing and brand anything is the primary selling tool of our current system. One brand versus another for dominance, until all sub-brands are devoured by a few mega ones. Daniel Pelavin has a great idea for using branding to rekindle Americans’ single most important democratic obligation, voting.

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Famous Art Recreations Getty Museum Challenge

In Frida Kahlo's 1941 self-portrait "Yo y Mis Pericos,

In Frida Kahlo’s 1941 self-portrait “Yo y Mis Pericos,” four parrots are perched on the artist’s shoulders and lap. In Alana Archer’s recreation, cleaning products stand in for the parrots. Painting belongs to Harold H. Stream Collection in New Orleans. Photo by Archer

Alana Archer, an interior designer in Kelowna, British Columbia, was inspired by the 1941 Kahlo painting “Me and My Parrots,” which shows four colorful parrots perched on the artist’s shoulders and in her lap. The parrots almost act like guard dogs for the Mexican artist, who suffered through years of chronic pain. For her variation on the self-portrait, Archer swapped parrots for a spray bottle and detergent, all of which happened to be green.

Famous Art Recreations Getty Museum Challenge.

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