When Pop Art came about in the 1950s, it was seen as a
radical movement that developed from the ideas of abstract expressionism. Its main focus was to take images from
mass culture and reproduce them in such a way that imposed a sense of irony on
the viewer. One of the masters of
this type of art was Andy Warhol.
When he was developing his ideas for painting someone had told him to
paint what he loved. So keeping
that in mind, his first major exhibition consisted of 32 of the exact same
canvases with identical screen-printings of Campbell’s Soup Cans in the center
of them. The only difference being
the flavor of the soup, which was meant to represent each of the flavors
available at the time. When asked
about why he created a piece such as this one, he simply claimed it was because
he had a can of Campbell’s Soup for lunch every day of his life!
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