Andy Warhol held his first solo exhibition of paintings in Los Angeles in 1962. Arranged on the gallery walls were 32 paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans. "I used to drink it," he said. "I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again." That exhibition marked the birth of an artist who would go on to pioneer brand new possibilities for art, incorporating the kind of products that the masses consumed (and digested) every day, their advertisements, and also portraits of stars from the silver screen. While Warhol might have had the "same lunch" every day, there were in fact 32 different varieties of the soup available at the time, and each got its own painting in the exhibition. The 10 silkscreen prints in this series each depict a different variety—and with some of them the artist has even made additions to the original designs!
The flavor of this one is "Old Fashioned Vegetable (Made with Beef Stock)."
Andy Warhol held his first solo exhibition of paintings in Los Angeles in 1962. Arranged on the gallery walls were 32 paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans. "I used to drink it," he said. "I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again." That exhibition marked the birth of an artist who would go on to pioneer brand new possibilities for art, incorporating the kind of products that the masses consumed (and digested) every day, their advertisements, and also portraits of stars from the silver screen.
While Warhol might have had the "same lunch" every day, there were in fact 32 different varieties of the soup available at the time, and each got its own painting in the exhibition. The 10 silkscreen prints in this series each depict a different variety—and with some of them the artist has even made additions to the original designs!
The flavor of this one is "Old Fashioned Vegetable (Made with Beef Stock)."
(SAKAMOTO Kyoko)* You can see other works from this series.