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Dec 22, 2020 · To make the “Campbell’s Soup Can” paintings, Warhol projected the image of a soup can onto his blank canvas, traced the outline and details, then carefully filled it in using...
- Susan Delson
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.
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]
- 20 by 16 inches (51 cm × 41 cm) each for 32 canvases
- Andy Warhol
- 1962
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...
Apr 25, 2015 · Exhibition. Apr 25–Oct 18, 2015. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans is the signature work in the artist’s career and a landmark in MoMA’s collection. The 1962 series of 32 paintings is the centerpiece in this focused collection exhibition of Warhol’s work during the crucial years between 1953 and 1967.
Genre: figurative. Media: polymer paint, canvas, polymer. Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US. Share: Wikipedia article References. Campbell's Soup Cans, which is sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, is a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol.
Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).
