The Campbell’s Soup Can 1962, painting was made out of synthetic polymer paint, graphite and metallic paint on canvas. “His first exhibited art gallery in 1962, when the Ferus Gallery in Los

Angeles showed his 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans” (Harden 1). The Campbell Soup Can painting is not particularly responsive when one first views it. It may first remind you of days when you were sick, because moms always serve Campbell’s soup on sick days. There isn’t much technical difficulty in the painting as well. One might even think, “Why the heck would anyone paint this?” Obviously there is a deeper meaning hidden behind the label of Campbell’s soup. Campbell’s soup was a rising company and everyone knew what it was, people could relate to it. The Campbell’s Soup Can was symbolic of America’s changing economy.

Warhol’s Campbell Soup Can and Marilyn Diptych gives viewers a look at what is going on in the world around them. He examines ideas of mass production, and industrialization. He uses new techniques of silk-screening and replication. He uses ancient techniques of iconography. He was able to appeal to viewers with his content. He was able to relate to the average person, not just elite artists. His art today still passes the test of time. His name is associated with pop art forever, because he painted what was in the now, touching popular culture.

America had gone through a depression and a world war; Warhol had lived through this and saw the changes of industrialization and production. During the war production changed to mass production, and when the war was over they applied this technique to modern marketing. What Warhol did was take this change in production and turned it into art. “His decision to focus on popular culture was more than a careerist move, however; it allowed him to celebrate the middle-class social material values he had absorbed growing up amid the hardships of the great depression” (Stokstad 509). The middle-class social material values Warhol possessed brought him closer to the average person. The object and desires of the general public were Warhol’s desires as well, making his material relative. Campbell’s Soup was one of the products of mass production after the war. “Thus the long American boom a

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