Art exists in a social and commercial context and has long been applied to the purpose of promoting products and ideas. Manet both reflected and discussed advertising in his work. Dali both designed fashion and posed for commercials using his eccentric art. British 19th century artist Robert Burford advertised colonialism through his landscapes.
In her doctoral thesis, Eve-Anne O’Regan of the University of Western Australia identified what we would now call ‘product placement’ in Manet’s classic A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.
