Campbell's Soup Can By Andy Warhol Analysis

This is Campbell’s Soup (I), which was originally created by Andy Warhol in 1962. This particular piece in fact belongs to a collection of Campbell soup Illustrations, which can be referred to as just ‘Campbells Soup Cans’. This collection is built up of thirty two individual canvases, each measuring 51 centimetres in height and 41 centimetres in width (which converts to 20 inches height by 16 inches width). Although technically not a painting, but a screen printed Illustration, it is an extremely iconic piece of work belonging to both Andy Warhol as an artist, and the pop-art context.

Despite the tomato soup can being a part of a collection, it is commonly considered as ‘the recognisable’ one, and has become the most iconic - in fact, the general conception is that this was simply an individual piece and that only those who had either researched or experience in the history of art generally or specifically in Andy Warhol’s artistic career.

So, despite there being a story behind the actual creation, I do not believe it intends to tell that narrative as a