Campbell Soup II Tomato-Beef Noodle

Real food that matters for life’s moments, states the company. Did you know the soup is still available? Not surprising, they haven’t change the famous can a lot. 

When Andy Warhol first exhibited Campbell’s Soup Cans in 1962, the canvases were displayed together on shelves, like products in a supermarket. At the time, Campbell’s sold 32 soup varieties; each one of Warhol’s 32 canvases corresponds to a different flavor. The first flavor the company introduced was tomato.

This work of art is a silkscreen, it’s one out of an edition of many and therefore less expensive. In this way Andy could make art a bit less exclusive. ‘I don’t think art should be only for the select few’, he said.

Andy Warhol was a commercial illustrator who became a successful author, publisher, film director and painter.