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Campbell's Soup Cans (1962)
Andy Warhol
Offset lithograph, Signed in the plate
50 x 70 cm
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 listed at the bottom of the plaque.
Description: Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans are perhaps the most well-known images in American modern art. Originally created in 1962 as a series of thirty-two canvases, the soup cans achieved international acclaim as a breakthrough in 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 hailed worldwide as a Pop Art breakthrough. When the paintings were first exhibited that year, they were presented together like products from a grocery store. Each soup can represented 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 symbols hand-stamped on the bottom of each can. 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-market commercial culture. Initially, the debut of Campbell's Soup Cans was widely contested, with many viewers struggling 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 Campbell's Soup Can screen prints in 1968.
