Pop Art Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Cans

In this article singulart investigates warhol s transition from commercial artist to pop art star and takes a closer look at his famous work campbell s soup cans.

Pop art andy warhol campbell soup cans. Initially created as a series of thirty two canvases in 1962 the soup cans gained international acclaim as a breakthrough in pop art. 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 it consists of thirty two canvases each measuring 20 inches 51 cm in height 16 inches 41 cm in width and each consisting of a painting of a campbell s soup can one of each of the canned soup varieties the company offered at the time. 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. 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 when he first exhibited campbell s soup cans in 1962 the canvases were displayed together on shelves like products in a grocery aisle.