{"id":548066,"date":"2010-04-30T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20133ed15824c970b"},"modified":"2010-04-30T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T16:58:31","slug":"painter-looks-at-american-fast-food-in-the-middle-east-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548066","title":{"rendered":"Painter looks at American fast food in the Middle East landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been 48 years since Andy Warhol demonstrated that an ordinary American food brand could be worth thinking about other than when you’re hungry. Now, Eric Robert Parnes<\/a> is up to much the same thing, albeit with work that’s a bit more provocative than a can of Campbell’s Condensed Tomato Soup.
<\/br>\u00a0 In his paintings, Parnes, a 31-year-old Iranian American artist, portrays brands like McDonald’s, KFC and Starbucks open for business in Middle Eastern countries. Each of his canvases features a group of women in chadors, their backs turned, regarding the fast-food outlets with thoughts that are anyone’s guess. Parnes\u2014whose far-ranging work also includes gold-leafed artillery helmets and nudes equipped with gas masks\u2014says his intent was not to be critical of American fast food’s presence in Muslim countries but to "explore \u2026 the dynamics involving Western and Eastern cultures." And for better or worse, Western "culture" these days usually means fast food.
<\/br>\u00a0 "Aside from the American flag, people identify the United States via our products’ visual logos," Parnes tells BrandFreak. "These brands have become visual representations that elicit an immediate response of recognition. It really doesn’t even matter that Domino’s or Starbucks is spelled out in another language. All we need is a logo to recognize the company."
<\/br>\u00a0 So, good news for all you fast-food marketers out there: Your logo works just as well in Riyadh as it does in Rochester. <\/p>\n

\u2014Posted by Robert Klara<\/p>\n

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It’s been 48 years since Andy Warhol demonstrated that an ordinary American food brand could be worth thinking about other than when you’re hungry. Now, Eric Robert Parnes is up to much the same thing, albeit with work that’s a bit more provocative than a can of Campbell’s Condensed Tomato Soup. \u00a0 In his paintings, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}