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Media fabric of 80% cellulose and 20% cotton. Dimensions 36 1/4 x 46 inches. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s classic Pop Art series of Campbell’s Soup Cans, this dress was sold by the Campbell’s Soup Company in the late 1960s. The dress was a form of advertisement for Campbell’s, combining the fad of paper dresses with Warhol’s popularizing ...
Andy Warhol (who began his career as a fashion illustrator) had been painting Campbell's soup cans since 1962. Such advertising icons, along with cartoons and billboards, yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday.
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While this “Souper” dress from Schreier’s collection is not one of Warhol’s designs, the Campbell Soup Company cleverly capitalized on public knowledge of the pop artist’s work to promote sales via mail-order campaign.
- 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...
6 available. All Filters. Rarity. Medium. Price Range. Sort: Recommended. 17 Artworks: Andy Warhol The Souper Dress (Andy Warhol Campbells), ca. 1965. Lot 180 Gallery. US$11,000. Andy Warhol. The Souper dress, ca. 1960' Kings Gallery. US$25,000. Andy Warhol. Souper Dress, circa 1968. Heritage Auctions. Bidding closed. Andy Warhol.
New York. Home. Artworks. Artists. Inquire. Artist: Andy Warhol. (American, 1928–1987) Title: Andy Warhol The Souper Dress (Andy Warhol Campbells), ca. 1965. Medium: Screen-print in colors on paper dress. Size: 37.5 x 22.5 in. (95.2 x 57.2 cm.) Price: Price on Request. Contact Gallery About This Work. View More.
