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Andy Warhol
Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962
When asked why he chose to paint Campbell's soup cans, Warhol offered a deadpan reply: "I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again." That daily meal is the subject of this work consisting of thirty-two canvases -- one for each of the flavors then sold by Campbell's -- using a combination of projection, tracing, painting, and stamping. Repeating the nearly identical image, the canvases at once stress the uniformity and ubiquity of the product's packaging and subvert the idea of painting as a medium of invention and originality. |