The most famous portraits in history are all painted from the torso up. That was the interesting insight from Ogilvy that led to this campaign for shoe polish brand Kiwi which recently won big at the Cannes festival. By commissioning artists to draw the bottom half of famous paintings like the Mona Lisa – this campaign created something unique and memorable and managed to make a brand in a category no one pays attention to relevant, interesting and worth of discussion.

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