Was it inspiration or desperation that drove advertising agency creative genii to resort to grotesqueries?
More to the point, how, and with what conscience, do they persuade their clients to spend millions on detached slithering tongues, obscenely exaggerated erect male nipples and drenching underarm sweat to rival a car wash from hell.
Perhaps they missed the point that grotesque does not necessarily mean gross. Certainly it is the gross that the perpetrators of these abominations found irresistible.
In the hands of Goya, Bruegel or daVinci, grotesque exaggeration could be turned to artistic expression or satire. In the hands of these sad specimens only the vulgar and gross remain.
Sound and Fury 
Say what? No Picasso?
I suppose Picasso did create grotesqueries, but in an a more abstract way than the “realistic” style of the artists I mentioned – and the commercials I hated.