Famous Andy Warhol offset lithograph in mint condition!
Authorized by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Designed by McGaw Graphics, Inc.
Edition details are given at the bottom of the plaque.
50 x 70 cm
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are perhaps the most famous images in American modern art. Originally created in 1962 as a series of thirty-two canvases, the soup cans have gained fame international as a breakthrough of Pop Art.
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are perhaps the most well-known images in American modern art. Originally created as a series of thirty-two canvases in 1962, the soup cans were acclaimed in the world as a breakthrough in Pop Art. When the paintings were first exhibited that year, they were presented together like products in a grocery store. Each can of soup corresponded to a different flavor and resembled the actual image of red and white Campbell's soup cans. Although they appear identical to the well-known grocery products, the artist's work is evident in the slight variations in the lettering and the fluer- de-lis hand-stamped on the bottom of each box. This juxtaposition between pure reproduction and the artist's hand makes the series all the more intriguing.
Warhol drew inspiration from his personal life to create this series. He explains: "I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess , the same thing over and over again." This sense of repetition was both internalized by the artist and embodied by mass commercial culture. Initially, the early days of Campbell's soup cans were widely contested, with many viewers struggled to understand this blatant appropriation of a mundane object. However, Warhol would take the themes of repetition and mass production further by creating two portfolios of screen prints of Campbell's soup cans in 1968.
