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Andy Warhol famously appropriated familiar images from consumer culture and mass media, among them celebrity and tabloid news photographs, comic strips, and, in this work, the widely consumed canned soup made by the Campbell’s Soup Company.
- Andy Warhol | MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
Two exhibitions in 1962 announced Andy Warhol’s dramatic...
- Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Cans and Other Works, 1953–1967
Apr 25–Oct 18, 2015. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans is...
- The Assembly-Line Effect: Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans ...
Aug 4, 2023. The Campbell’s Soup Cans marked the onset of a...
- Andy Warhol | MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
- What Did The Soup Can Paintings Mean?
- How Were The Soup Can Paintings First received?
- Why Did The Paintings Become Such A Sensation?
Pop turned traditional art upside down. Instead of portraits, landscapes, battle scenes or other subjects that experts thought of as “art,” artists like Warhol took images from advertising, comic books and other bits of popular culture—the “pop” in Pop art. They used humor and irony to comment on how mass production and consumerism had come to domi...
When Warhol’s show opened in 1962, Pop was just getting started. People had no idea what to make of art that was so different from everything that art was supposed to be. For one thing, Irving Blum, one of the owners of Ferus Gallery, chose to display the paintings on narrow shelves running the length of the gallery, not unlike a supermarket aisle....
Once the public and the critics got over their shock, they warmed to Warhol’s soup cans. For one thing, they made art fun. How hard could it be to understand a painting when the original was probably on your kitchen shelf? Critics started to see the sly, ironic humor in Warhol’s “portraits” of Scotch Broth and Chicken Gumbo. And Blum’s decision to ...
- Susan Delson
ARTS & CULTURE. How Andy Warhol Came to Paint Campbell’s Soup Cans. He was talented and prosperous, but the young visionary worried the art world had left him behind. Then he discovered...
In total, Warhol painted about 50 Campbell's Soup canvases from November 1961 to 1962. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné (edited by Georg Frei and Neil Printz) lists the 32-canvas main set, 3 large grid-style paintings (1 of 200 cans and 2 of 100 cans), and about a dozen-and-a-half still lifes. [93]
Title: Campbell's Soup I. Series/Portfolio: Portfolio of ten screenprints. Artist: Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York) Printer: Salvatore Silkscreen Co., Inc. New York. Publisher: Factory Additions. Date: 1968. Medium: Portfolio of ten screenprints. Dimensions: Each sheet: 35 1/8 x 23 1/16 in. (89.2 x 58.6 cm ...
