Campbell’s Soup Cans

The Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York (the USA)

Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases.

By the 1960s, the New York art world was filled with works in the style of abstract expressionism. Warhol became one of the artists who felt the need to return images to the visual arts. Interior designer and gallery owner M. Latow proposed him the idea of ​​depicting objects that people use every day. “Cans” came from the fact that Warhol ate Campbell soup almost every day. Warhol decided to recreate the abundance that appeared in the life of Americans, using multiple identical images of the goods. The viewer seemed to come into a luxurious supermarket. Even today, Warhol is credited with creating a new kind of art that glorifies (and also criticizes) the consumer habits of his contemporaries.