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.