Campbell's Soup Cans
Pop art icons
Campbell's Soup Cans is a 1962 artwork by Andy Warhol consisting of thirty-two canvases, each depicting a different variety of Campbell's condensed soup.
The piece became iconic of the Pop Art movement, elevating commercial imagery to fine art and questioning distinctions between high culture and mass production.
The museum acquired Campbell's Soup Cans for its permanent collection.
- pop artMass culture as canvas
- tomato soupPuréed red fruit broth
- silk screenStencil printing through mesh
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- mass productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
Andy Warhol · consumerism · consumer culture · red and white · grocery · canned goods · repetition · iconic · museum · MOMA · 1962 · commercial art · label · supermarket · Americana · American icon · condensed · branding
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- 1960s ArtPop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein
- MoMAMoMA, modern art, contemporary art, sculpture garden, permanent collection
art movement philosophy
Campbell's Soup CansAbstract Expressionism
Gestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement