The Story of Andy Warhol’s 'Campbell’s Soup Cans'. Reigning Queens Royal Edition with Diamond Dust, 1985, New England Clam Chowder, from Campbell's Soup II, 1969, Oyster Stew from Campbell's Soup II, 1969, Cream of Mushroom Soup, from the Campbell's Soup I Portfolio, 1968, Scotch Broth Soup, from Campbell's Soup II, 1969, Chicken ‘N Dumplings Soup from Campbell’s Soup II, 1969, Golden Mushroom Soup, from Campbell's Soup II, 1969, Pepper Pot Soup, from Campbell's Soup I Portfolio, 1968, Hot Dog Bean, from the Campbell's Soup II Portfolio, 1969, Old Fashioned Vegetable Soup, from Campbell’s Soup II, 1969, Consommé Soup, from the Campbell's Soup I Portfolio, 1968, Vegetable Made with Beef Stock, from the Campbell's Soup I Portfolio, 1968, Chicken Noodle Soup, from the Campbell's Soup Series, 1968, Tomato-Beef Noodle Soup, from the Campbell's Soup II Portfolio, 1969, Vegetarian Vegetable Soup from Campbell's Soup II, 1969. What changed as the ’60s dawned was that Warhol, just then swerving from ads to art, came to use that entire commercial aesthetic as a ready-made, the way Marcel Duchamp had presented manufactured urinals and bottle racks as museum-worthy art. Corporate Responsibility. Warhol’s Pop wasn’t about borrowing a detail or two from commercial work; it was about pulling all the most dubious qualities of the commercial into the realm of fine art and reveling in the confusion that caused. Continue The motif made its debut in 1962 when Warhol mounted his first solo show featuring 32 canvases painted with Campbell’s Soup … © Masterworks Fine Art Gallery. “The cartoon paintings...it’s too late,” Warhol is supposed to have said. Overall, his sculptural works centered on Warhol’s beloved premise of commercialization. Could a “serious” artist risk going down into the trenches of popular culture—as Warhol went on to do in his Silver Factory and then in two more decades of tabloid headlines—and have that descent count as a successful move in the chess game of high art? Andy Warhol ’s Soup Cans have become synonymous with the Pop art movement, and are responsible for propelling Warhol into a celebrated career in fine art from his day job as a comic illustrator. The whole story sounds as apocryphal as most of the other origin stories connected to Warhol—except that one biographer claims to have seen the actual check Warhol wrote to Latow. Advertising Notice Warhol’s comic-strip panels would not have shocked any window-shopper. Nevertheless, when Warhol told Leila Davies, an old college friend, about his brand-new Campbell’s paintings, she was distraught at the waste of the talents he’d acquired in art school: “They just seemed like about as vacuous a statement as you could make as far as painting was concerned,” she said, echoing the feelings of his other ’50s friends. Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger's Productive Friendship, Tate Modern and Tate Britain have Reopened, Andy Warhol’s Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century Series, 1980, National Gallery of Art Purchases Work by Native American Artist, Francis Bacon Triptych Bought for $85 Million USD, Andy Warhol Foundation Gives $4 Million USD to Arts Organizations. Warhol deliberately used the associations with the medium to make viewers question what qualifies a true work of art. He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. When asked about these boxes, Warhol expressed he “wanted something ordinary”. Sell Andy Warhol artwork with us. Warhol’s final breakthrough into ’60s Pop came through an accidental inspiration from a minor dealer on the New York scene named Muriel Latow. Even today, these massively recognizable images serve as a beacon of popular culture. Andy would travel around the country, not only with The Velvets, but also with superstar of the year Edie Sedgwick and the lightshow “The Exploding Plastic Inevitable”. Vote Now! The ink would pass through the mesh and impress a print of the image onto the canvas underneath. Adapted from Warhol, by Blake Gopnik. He was right, it did—and in the process it exploded almost every notion of what art should be and what an artist should do. Andy Warhol. Those questions still vex every artist today, from certified stars such as Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons to the latest art school graduates. When the paintings were first exhibited in that year, they were displayed together like products at a grocery store. Andy Warhol's Pop Art legacy continues to inspire various forms of contemporary aesthetic expression. Since moving from Pittsburgh 12 years before, Warhol had built a career for himself as one of New York’s more stylish window dressers and top shoe illustrators, with ads that ran in the society pages of the New York Times. If you enjoy Andy Warhol prints, you may also be interested in contemporary Calder lithographs. Give a Gift. And then, for something like the following year, the front room at the top of his town house saw him meticulously hand-painting those products onto canvases of every size. The singularity of these works shows a clear separation from Warhol’s typical themes of mass production and repetition.