The painting known as Campbell’s Soup Cans is 
on permanent display at the MOMA in New York. Warhol 
 and adopted commercial 
processes when he 
 a commercial illustrator. He 
 using them in paintings in late 1961. The Campbell’s soup pictures 
 among the earliest 
silk-screen paintings, although he 
 with dollar 
bills. He 
 that the way silk-screening imitated 
mass manufacture  a good way to show his own ideas about modernity in art. He 
 abstract impressionism some years before. He 
 magazine illustration techniques to make his own images.
Warhol 
 the work in California in 1962. It 
 his first one-man show, 
although he 
 his work in galleries in New York. Following this California exhibition, he 
 famous on the west coast. From then on, he 
 to images of mass consumption, in the same way as Liechtenstein 
 to comic-book style art.
Indeed, Warhol 
 up on comic strip work himself because he 
 that Liechtenstein 
 so good. The soup cans 
 for him the symbol of Pop art. By the end of the sixties, the soup cans, like Marilyn Monroe, 
 people instantly think of Warhol.