Campbell's Soup Cans Analysis

The Campbell’s Soup Cans piece truly breaks away from the normative traditions of art, which is an important factor when considering its prominence in the art community. Warhol has always utilized different printing tools, and used different methods and mediums when making his pieces. This different perspective shook up a nation’s idea on where art could come from and what can even be considered a refined form of art. He also chose such a common and mundane subject that made people question the thought of it being art. If these canvases were taken into a different context, then people may be seeing these pieces as simple advertisements for the Campbell’s Soup Co. Warhol brings about common objects and artistic styles that people see on a day …show more content…
When objects are isolated, and people are forced to look at it and deep more deeply about them, we are then able to from a vastly larger amount of conclusions pertaining to that object than we would have ever imaged when engaging with the object on a typical day. The topic of cheap advertisement art was miles apart from that of the fine art that was typically seen in Museums, that it’s no wonder that most people felt the controversy being presented by Warhol (Zuker). According to Steven Zucker, Warhol asked and stated, “What is it would our culture that is really authentic and important? Mass Production, factories, and industrial” (Zucker). Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, claimed that he once experienced at student run art exhibition where one particular student, as a prank, presented a typical lunch tray with chips, fruit and a drink, and displayed it as a piece of art. At first, may saw that as funny, but, “to some degree maybe that was art. (Khan). Khan states, “to some degree when someone took a lunch tray and gave it proper lighting and gave it a podium to look at it and wrote a whole description about, I did view the lunch tray in a different way” (Khan). In sense, Warhol was the doing the same as this college prankster. Although intentional, Warhol brought a typical, cheap, household product on a podium, gave it the “proper lighting”, and allowed people to think more deeply about the position of that object in today’s society. Not only does this allow people to analyze the position of that particular object in society, but also how society functions with in comparison to that object. During that time, the Campbell’s Soup Cans piece, not only the piece itself but the methods used to create it, were entirely relevant to the way society functions at that day and age. The 1960s, was a time of mass production, industrialization, machines, and factories.