After a night let loose in the city, I stumbled upon and drooled over
the Rosenthal Limited Edition Andy Warhol art plate @ Macleay on Manning [in the high street] Potts Point. For $249.
I put it down, sadly. No soup for me!
And realised I need to get out more.
Back to reality…I say hel-lo to these Campbell’s soups for $1 each at the local supermarket.
Can do…
50+ years The Art of Soup
This year marks the 51st Anniversary of Andy Warhol’s 1962 Campbell’s Soup Can. These silk-screen paintings played a pivotal role in the emergence of the pop art genre. Warhol was particularly fond of Campbell’s soup, which was often the subject of his pieces…
… Produced under license from The Andy Warhol Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation that promotes the visual arts.
www.warholfoundation.org
source: taken straight from the can
want more…
When Andy Warhol first exhibited the 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans canvases in 1962, they were displayed together on shelves, like products in a grocery aisle. At the time, the Campbell’s Soup Company sold this many varieties; each canvas corresponds to a different flavor. Warhol did not indicate how the canvases should be installed. At MoMA, they are arranged in rows that reflect the chronological order in which the soups were introduced. The first flavor introduced by the company was tomato, in 1897.
Campbell’s Soup Cans reproduces an object of mass consumption in the most literal sense. These paintings were silkscreened, a printmaking method originally invented for commercial use. In a semi-mechanized process, Warhol repeated the same basic soup can image on dozens of canvases. He then hand-painted or stenciled the names of the individual soup varieties.
source: MoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Warhol said of Campbell’s Soup:
I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again. Someone said my life has dominated me; I liked that idea.
So I’m wondering if your life dominating you is a good or a bad thing? Or a statement of the bleeding obvious?
urban rustic 
I keep checking our local Coles for these – I’m beginning to think our locale falls out of the ‘catchement area’ if you know what I mean?!
Really Kylie? Bummer. Someone on instagram had a great idea to use them as vases. So far they are sitting in my pantry making it look heaps cooler, not sure if I’ll use them or not [though the stash of soup was pretty big at Woolies] Tomato is my favourite too. yay. If you get super [souper] desperate I can post you some… Was thinking of starting my own time capsule with them. Andy Warhol was a time capsule fanatic. And also soup fiend.
fantastic post- i’m with you about the highs and lows…would love a high but can only afford the low. but the low is incredible. thanks for bringing it to out attention!
Yep. It’s a lot of money for a purely decorative object. I mean what? You cant eat soup off of a plate? But I am a big AW fan. I remember doing a vegemite jar in the style of back in high school. Thanks Edwina