Andy Warhol: Analyzing Campbell's Soup Cans

On Monday, July 9th, 1962, while the United States was experimenting with the nuclear bomb at Johnson Island, and the future Wall Street scammer Jordan Belfort was born, and the artist, Andy Warhol, exposed his work at an art gallery exhibition in Los Angeles. One of his works is now one of the iconic arts, called “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans.” Out of all subjects, Andy Warhol chose Campbell’s soup cans to display his view. Was this an accidental art? Did Andy Warhol just paint them and throw them together, defining it as “art”? What is the meaning behind the decision? Inspired by his surroundings and his life experiences, Warhol created an art piece that challenged an audience to view an everyday item in an entirely new way. In doing so, Warhol introduced a completely new viewpoint and created a completely new approach to art that pushed the boundaries and definition of art. This paper will try to understand and analyze why Andy Warhol chose Campbell’s Soup Cans and painted 32 cans with
Another interesting meaning behind the mystery of the 32 canvases of an identical painting of Campbell’s Soup Cans is a representation of Warhol’s vision of the Modern World. When looking at the canvases from far away, all the cans look identical. However, the closer we look at them, the more we begin to notice that they are not all the same. They show various different flavors from tomato and beef broth to celery and chicken noodles. It’s possible that Andy tried to prove, “Steam-powered machines and unskilled laborers in factories began to replace skilled artisans.”