Campbell's Soup Cans - Andy Warhol at MoMA - Pictures - CBS News Andy Warhol at MoMA Next Campbell's Soup Cans Left: "Campbell’s Soup Cans" (1962) by Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, each 20 x 16". On April 25, 2015 the Museum of Modern Art in New York opens a new exhibition featuring some of the most iconic works by Warhol from the period 1953-1967. For the first time at the museum, the 32 canvases that make up "Campbell's Soup Cans" will be shown in a single line rather than a grid, just as they were when Warhol's seminal work was first displayed at L.A.'s Ferus Gallery in 1962. Credit: The Museum of Modern Art. ©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation/ARS, NY/TM Licensed by Campbell's Soup Co. All rights reserved. Soup Can Detail from Andy Warhol's "Campbell’s Soup Cans" (1962).

The "Soup Cans" were a watershed for Warhol. The painted works both played on common commodities (like store brand logos) and marked the artist's increased interest in serial repetition. Credit: The Museum of Modern Art. ©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation/ARS, NY/TM Licensed by Campbell's Soup Co. All rights reserved. Proustian The museum's exhibition also includes illustrated books and drawings that Warhol created during the 1950s. Left: The cover of "À la recherche du shoe perdu" (c. 1955), from a portfolio of 18 offset lithographs with synthetic ink additions. Credit: The Museum of Modern Art. ©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Shoe Left: One from the portfolio of 18 offset lithographs with synthetic ink additions, titled "À la recherche du shoe perdu" (c. 1955). Credit: The Museum of Modern Art. ©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York A Gold Book "A Gold Book" (1957) by Andy Warhol.

Illustrated book with 20 offset lithographs (fourteen on gold paper, and five with synthetic ink additions). Credit: The Museum of Modern Art. ©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Roll of Bills "Roll of Bills" (1962) by Andy Warhol. Pencil, crayon, and felt-tip pen on paper. Credit: The Museum of Modern Art. ©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York You Dirty Rat "Cagney" (1962) by Andy Warhol. Screenprint, one of seven known variants. The publicity still from "Angels With Dirty Faces," which Warhol doctored as a silkscreen print, shows legendary actor James Cagney as a larger-than-life gangster - even with a Tommy gun aimed at his heart. Warhol's obsession with stars, glamour and mass culture are vividly contained in this confluence of death and celebrity. Credit: The Museum of Modern Art.

©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Two Flaming Stars "Double Elvis" (1963) by Andy Warhol. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Credit: The Museum of Modern Art. ©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Gold Star "Gold Marilyn Monroe" (1962) by Andy Warhol. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Warhol produced a series of works honoring Monroe soon after her tragic death in 1962. For "Gold Marilyn," he took a publicity photo from her film, "Niagara," and silkscreened her face in vivid colors, with black highlights, onto a gold background. Credit: The Museum of Modern Art. ©2015 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Marilyns Left: Two of 10 screenprints from the Andy Warhol series "Marilyn Monroe" (1967).

For more info: Andy Warhol Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story Like The Art Story on Facebook Follow The Art Story on Google+ "How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene." Synopsis Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. Nevertheless, his screen-printed images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, and sensational newspaper stories, quickly became synonymous with Pop art. He emerged from the poverty and obscurity of an Eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh, to become a charismatic magnet for bohemian New York, and to ultimately find a place in the circles of High Society. For many his ascent echoes one of Pop art's ambitions, to bring popular styles and subjects into the exclusive salons of high art.

His elevation to the status of a popular icon represented a new kind of fame and celebrity for a fine artist. Key Ideas Warhol's early work in commercial illustration was all about elevating an ordinary product into a more glamorous light for the purpose of selling it as an object of desire to the masses. His drawings of women’s shoes were decorative and whimsical examples of this where a high heel might be festooned with flowers and birds, lending it an ephemeral female connotation. This early experience in manipulating popular taste would come to inform his original Pop works, which placed everyday objects on a pedestal in their stark and unadorned simplicity. Unlike the commercial work, designed to seduce, this new art would produce the opposite effect by lending a more dispassionate and impersonal mood. Much debate still surrounds the iconic screen-printed images with which Warhol established his reputation as a Pop artist in the early 1960s. Some view his Death and Disaster series, along with his Marilyn pictures, as frank expressions of our universal sorrow surrounding public events. Others view them as some of the first expressions of 'compassion fatigue' – reflecting the way we lose the ability to sympathize with events from which we feel removed.

Still others think of these pictures as screens, which buffer us from horrifying circumstances while we personally register and process shock. Although artists had been influenced by popular culture throughout the twentieth century, Pop art marked an important new stage in the breakdown between fine art, celebrity culture, and commercial art forms. Although Warhol's paintings from the early 1960s were important in pioneering these developments, he would soon take Pop off the canvas and become a leading example of blurring the lines between physical life and art. His lifestyle as an artist and eccentric personality was elevated to star status, his very existence in the social whir of New York City as iconic as the notables whose faces would appear on his eponymous silkscreens. As ringmaster of his silver walled studio coined The Factory, he would create art, film, and host parties populated by a roving cast of larger than life characters where life imitated art and art imitated life. It is arguable that these diverse activities were just as influential in expanding the implications of Pop art. Although Warhol would continue to create paintings intermittently throughout his career, in 1965 he "retired" from the medium to concentrate on making experimental films.

The films furthered Warhol’s obsessions with the mundane, oftentimes taking a subject such as Sleep or Eat and painstakingly presenting it in real time, reflecting our droll-like obsessions with ourselves. Despite years of neglect, these films have recently attracted widespread interest, and Warhol is now seen as one of the most important filmmakers of the period, a forefather of independent film. Critics have traditionally seen Warhol's career as going into decline after a deranged fan shot him in the side of his stomach. Valuing his early paintings above all, they have ignored the activities that absorbed his attention in later years - films, parties, collecting, publishing, and painting commissioned portraits. Yet some have begun to think that all these ventures make up Warhol's most important legacy because they prefigure the diverse interests, activities, and interventions that occupy artists today. In fact, Warhol’s posthumously published diaries remain one of the most decisive time capsule in evidence, documenting his role in that legacy. Our Sponsor: Musart Boutique.

Article Continues Below Andy Warhol in your home - own a piece of the museum Most Important Art Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) By the 1960s, the New York art world was in a rut as Abstract Expressionism’s explosion of the 1940s and '50s had grown stale. Warhol was one of the artists hungry to reintroduce imagery to his work. The gallery owner and interior designer Muriel Latow presented Warhol with the idea of painting soup cans, when she suggested to him that he should paint objects that people use every day. (It is rumoured that Warhol ate the soup for lunch on a daily basis). Because Warhol was already an extremely successful consumer ad designer, he used the techniques of his trade to create an image that was both easily recognizable and visually stimulating. He was well versed in the concepts of the advertising industry, which was currently invading the American psyche with its promise of happiness through abundant consumerism. He mirrored this by painting soup cans on thirty-two canvases aligned on a wall to denote the experience of being in a well-lit supermarket.

With this installation, Warhol became credited with envisioning a new type of art that glorified (and also criticized) the nation’s impetus toward consumption. Warhol would go on to say about his ethos of putting ordinary items front and center, "I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about." Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases - The Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York Like The Art Story on Facebook Biography Childhood Andy was the third child born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents, Ondrej and Ulja (Julia) Warhola, in a working class neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He had two older brothers, John and Paul. As a child, Andy was smart and creative. His mother, a casual artist herself, encouraged his artistic urges by giving him his first camera at nine years old. Warhol was known to suffer from a nervous disorder that would frequently keep him at home, and, during these long periods, he would listen to the radio and collect pictures of movie stars around his bed. It was this exposure to current events at a young age that he later said shaped his obsession with pop culture and celebrities.

When he was 14, his father passed away, leaving the family money to be specifically used towards higher learning for one of the boys. It was decided by the family that Andy would benefit the most from a college education. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Early Training After graduating from high school at the age of 16, in 1945, Warhol attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he received formal training in pictorial design. Shortly after graduating, in 1949, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a commercial illustrator. His first project was for Glamour magazine for an article entitled, "Success is a Job in New York." Throughout the 1950s Warhol continued his successful career in commercial illustration, working for several well-known magazines, such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker. He also produced advertising and window displays for local New York retailers. His work with I.

Miller & Sons, for which his whimsical blotted line advertisements were particularly noticed, gained him some local notoriety, even winning several awards from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In the early 1950s, Andy shortened his name from Warhola to Warhol, and decided to strike out on his own as a serious artist. His experience and expertise in commercial art, combined with his immersion in American popular culture, influenced his most notable work. In 1952, he exhibited Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote in his first individual show at the Hugo Gallery in New York. While exhibiting work in several venues around New York City, he most notably exhibited at MoMA, where he participated in his first group show in 1956. Warhol took notice of new emerging artists, greatly admiring the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, which inspired him to expand his own artistic experimentation. In 1960, Warhol began using advertisements and comic strips in his paintings.

These works, examples of early Pop art, were characterized by more expressive and painterly styles that included clearly recognizable brushstrokes, and were loosely influenced by Abstract Expressionism. However, subsequent works, such his Brillo Boxes (1964), would mark a direct rebellion against Abstract Expressionism, by almost completely removing any evidence of the artist's hand. Mature Period Andy Warhol worked across many media as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, filmmaker and writer. In September 1960, after moving to a townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he began his most prolific period. From having no dedicated studio space in his previous apartment, where he lived with his mother, he now had plenty of room to work. In 1962 he offered the Department of Real Estate $150 a month to rent a nearby obsolete fire house on East 87th Street. He was granted permission and used this space in conjunction with his Lexington Avenue space until 1964. Continuing with the theme of advertisements and comic strips, his paintings throughout the early part of the 1960s were based primarily on illustrated images from printed media and graphic design.

To create his large-scale graphic canvases, Warhol used an opaque projector to enlarge the images onto a large canvas on the wall. Then, working freehand, he would trace the image with paint directly onto the canvas without a pencil tracing underneath. As a result, Warhol's works from early 1961 are generally more painterly. Late in 1961, Warhol started on his Campbell's Soup Can paintings. The series employed many different techniques, but most were created by projecting source images on to canvas, tracing them with a pencil, and then applying paint. In this way Warhol removed most signs of the artist's hand. In 1962 Warhol started to explore silkscreening. This stencil process involved transferring an image on to a porous screen, then applying paint or ink with a rubber squeegee. This marked another means of painting while removing traces of his hand; like the stencil processes he had used to create the Campbell's Soup Can pictures, this also enabled him to repeat the motif multiple times across the same image, producing a serial image suggestive of mass production. Often, he would first set down a layer of colors which would compliment the stencilled image after it was applied.

His first silkscreened paintings were based on the front and back faces of dollar bills, and he went on to create several series of images of various consumer goods and commercial items using this method. He depicted shipping and handling labels, Coca-Cola bottles, coffee can labels, Brillo Soap box labels, matchbook covers, and cars. From autumn 1962 he also started to produce photo-silkscreen works, which involved transferring a photographic image on the porous silkscreens. His first was Baseball (1962), and those that followed often employed banal or shocking imagery derived from tabloid newspaper photographs of car crashes and civil rights riots, money and consumer household products. In 1964 Warhol moved to 231 East 47th Street, calling it "The Factory." Having achieved moderate success as an artist by this point, he was able to employ several assistants to help him execute his work. This marked a turning point in his career.

Now, with the help of his assistants, he could more decisively remove his hand from the canvas and create repetitive, mass-produced images that would appear empty of meaning and beg the question, "What makes art, art?" This was an idea first introduced by Marcel Duchamp, whom Warhol admired. Warhol had a lifelong fascination with Hollywood, demonstrated by his series of iconic images of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. He also expanded his medium into installations, most notably at the Stable Gallery in New York in 1964, replicating Brillo boxes in their actual size and then screenprinting their label designs onto blocks made of plywood. Wanting to continue his exploration of different mediums, Warhol began experimenting with film in 1963. Two years later, after a trip to Paris for an exhibition of his work, he announced that he would be retiring from painting to focus exclusively on film. Although he never completely followed through with this intention, he did produce many films, most starring those whom he called the Warholstars, an eccentric and eclectic group of friends who frequented the Factory and were known for their unconventional lifestyle.

He created approximately 600 films between 1963 and 1976, films ranging in length from a few minutes to 24 hours. He also developed a project called The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, or EPI, in 1967. The EPI was a multi-media production combining The Velvet Underground rock band with projections of film, light and dance, culminating in a sensory experience of performance art. Warhol had also been self-publishing artist's books since the 1950s, but his first mass produced book, Andy Warhol's Index, was published in 1967. He later published several other books, and founded Interview Magazine with his friend Gerard Malanga in 1969. The magazine is dedicated to celebrities and is still in production today. After an attempt on his life in 1968, by acquaintance and radical feminist, Valerie Solanas, he decided to distance himself from his unconventional entourage. This marked the end of the 1960s Factory scene.

Warhol subsequently sought out companionship in New York high society, and throughout most of the 1970s his work consisted of commissioned portraits derived from printed Polaroid photographs. The most notable exception to this is his famous Mao series, which was done as a comment on President Richard Nixon's visit to China. Lacking the glamour and commercial appeal of his earlier portraits, critics saw Warhol as prostituting his artistic talent, and viewed this later period as one of decline. However, Warhol saw financial success as an important goal. He had made the shift from commercial artist to business artist. Late Years and Death Ironically, in the late 1970s and 1980s, Warhol made a return to painting, and produced works that frequently verged on abstraction. His Oxidation Painting series, which were made by urinating on a canvas of copper paint, echoed the immediacy of the Abstract Expressionists and the rawness of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings. By the 1980s, Warhol had regained much of his critical notoriety, due in part to his collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente, two much younger and more cutting-edge artists.

In the final years of Warhol's life, he turned to religious subjects; his version of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is particularly renowned. In these works, Warhol melded the sacred and the irreverent by juxtaposing enlarged logos of brands against images of Christ and his Apostles. After suffering postoperative complications from a routine gall bladder procedure, Warhol died on February 22, 1987. He was buried in his hometown of Pittsburgh. His memorial service was held in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and attended by more than 2,000 people. Legacy Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century, creating some of the most recognizable images ever produced. Challenging the idealist visions and personal emotions conveyed by abstraction, Warhol embraced popular culture and commercial processes to produce work that appealed to the general public. He was one of the founding fathers of the Pop art movement, expanding the ideas of Duchamp by challenging the very definition of art. His artistic risks and constant experimentation with subjects and media made him a pioneer in almost all forms of visual art.

His unconventional sense of style and his celebrity entourage helped him reach the mega-star status to which he aspired. Warhol's will dictated that his estate fund the Warhol Foundation for the advancement of the visual arts, which was subsequently created later that year. Through the joint efforts of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Dia Center for the Arts, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the Warhol Museum was opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1994, housing a large collection of his work. Influences and Connections What do you think of Andy Warhol paintings? | eNotes What do you think of Andy Warhol paintings? e-martin | College Teacher | (Level 1) Educator Emeritus Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:30 PM Andy Warhol presents an interesting critical challenge, I think. Questions of politics and aesthetics are inherent to both his products and his methods. The screen print method making comments on the industrial state of American culture can be seen as a powerful and well-articulated artistic message, laden with irony, wit, creativity, and a certain strain of bitterness.

For me, Warhol forces us to get past the "do I like it or do I dislike it" diametric mode of criticism. There, really, is not much to like in his pieces visually. This makes his art a type of literature; work to be "read" as much as it is to be "seen". Our responses then become complex, necessarily participating in the subjects presented by the Warhol process, so to speak. like 0 dislike 0 ask996 | High School Teacher | (Level 1) Senior Educator Posted on April 22, 2010 at 10:43 AM While Andy Warhol might not have appealed to everyone, you cannot deny that he was a master of his craft. His ability to see ordinary things in a different light and display them in such a unique way while still being commercially successful was an amazing feat. like 0 dislike 0 joe30pl | College Teacher | (Level 2) Adjunct Educator Posted on June 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM One can not deny the sheer amount of skill Warhol had at promoting his work.

If anything, his skill at showmanship halped sell his art better than the art itself. As for what I think, Warhol was an artist I just never cared for; his skill was good, but overall I always found his work to be trying too hard to be "special" like 0 dislike 0 pmiranda2857 | High School Teacher | (Level 1) Educator Emeritus Posted on May 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM Andy Warhol's paintings, Pop Art, as a sub-category of Modern Art, emerged in the mid 1950s but did not reach its height of popularity until the mid-1960s, is a form of expression that incorporates the ordinary into art so as to appeal to the masses that is why it is labeled Pop, as in popular, Art. Was Andy Warhol making art for the common folk to enjoy or was he mocking the common folk with his art? Its hard to say what he had in mind when he elevated the Campbell Soup Can to an art form and presented it to the world.

I think that Andy Warhol's work was a reflection of a period where he felt that the ordinary elements of life were being overlooked because of all the chaos and turmoil in the world. During the time when Warhol was making designs of the Campbell Soup Cans and flashy images of Marilyn Monroe, the world was exploding with war and strife in the streets with the Civil Rights Movement, riots and marches. "In July 1962 Andy Warhol exposed his Soup Can's for the very first time. In total he painted 32 Campbell's Soup Cans in the manner that they were displayed in grocery shops: next to each other and at equal distances. This piece of art was a provocation against the artistic society as he brought supermarkets and art galleries to the same level" I am particularly fascinated by the Campbell Soup Cans because they were so ordinary, so common, yet when you think about them and the time in which they were painted, they really express simplicity as well as progress. Soup which is a homey food, traditionally made in kitchens by women, particularly moms and grandmothers, which represent home and family can now be found in a can. So does that mean that you don't need a mom in the kitchen anymore to make this comfort food?

I think there was a fear in the 1960s that technoloy was robbing society of its individualism, everything was becoming automated. As an artist who took images from pop culture and made them into iconic expressions of the time, I'm not sure what he was really trying to tell us with his work. Was he honoring or mocking the images of his society in the mid-20th century. Did he chronicle, in his art, a message for future generations a shift in society where more women started to work outside the home, where the world was on the cusp of major change? As if to say, hey, look, Campbell Soup Cans, that's what the 1960s can be represented as, a commercialized form of home cooking, mom in kitchen no longer needed, just a can opener is required. We were becoming more mechanical and less personal, and that was only the beginning.

like 0 dislike 0 Andy Warhol's '15 minutes' of fame are not up yet - CNN.com Andy Warhol's '15 minutes' of fame are not up yet By Katherine Dorsett Bennett, CNN Updated 8:33 PM ET, Wed September 5, 2012 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – The Campbell Soup Company celebrates the 50th anniversary of Andy Warhol's soup can series with special edition labels. Hide Caption Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – Campbell's has produced four specially-designed labels reflecting Warhol's pop art style. Hide Caption Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – Andy Warhol once famously stated, "Pop art is for everyone." Hide Caption 3 of 9 Photos: Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – Marilyn Monroe was one of many celebrities Warhol used in his works. Hide Caption 4 of 9 Photos: Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – "Double Elvis (Ferus Type)" by Andy Warhol at Sotheby's auction house in central London.

Hide Caption Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – The Andy Warhol Museum is in Pittsburgh. Hide Caption 6 of 9 Photos: Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – The Andy Warhol painting "Shadows," which is longer than a football field, is on exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. Hide Caption 7 of 9 Photos: Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait © 2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Hide Caption 8 of 9 Photos: Andy Warhol's 15 minutes – Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait © 2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Hide Caption Campbell's has produced limited-edition soup can labels honoring Andy Warhol Some of Warhol's famous quotes are printed on the soup cans, too Andy Warhol once famously stated that "Pop art is for everyone" Iconic Pop artist Andy Warhol is often quoted for his statement, "In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Twenty-five years after his death, his influence on contemporary art has well surpassed the 15-minute mark. Campbell Soup Company is the latest entity to honor his legacy. This week, 1.2 million limited-edition cans of condensed tomato soup with labels inspired by his Pop art go on sale. The specially designed Campbell's soup cans pay tribute to his lively color palette, using orange, blue, pink and teal to spruce up the familiar design. The labels commemorate the 50th anniversary of Warhol's famed art piece "32 Campbell's Soup Cans." Some of Warhol's famous quotes are printed on the Campbell's cans, too, including "Pop art is for everyone." This quote is significant as his wide-ranging body of work helped "blur the boundaries between high and low culture," said Michael Hermann, director of licensing at The Andy Warhol Foundation .

Warhol appealed to a massive audience from all walks of life, he said. Warhol's humble roots stem from a working-class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, where he was born in 1928. As an adult, he moved to New York City, where he set up a studio and built his fame and fortune. His enormous body of work included multiple mediums and featured subjects ranging from celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe to simple, everyday items such as a banana. "I believe Warhol's popularity is certainly due in part to his uncanny ability to present the familiar from unexpected perspectives through visually and conceptually impactful works of art. However, it seems his influence today comes as much from his biography as someone who embodied the American dream and celebrated creativity and individuality," said Hermann. When once asked why he painted the soup cans, Warhol noted, "I used to have the same (Campbell's soup) lunch every day for 20 years." He was also known to say, "I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and that was it." His unique style of artistic expression and world view is credited for launching his career and the Pop art movement.

Art collectors have paid millions of dollars for some of Warhol's pieces, but shoppers at Target, where the limited-edition soup cans are on sale, will have to shell out only 75 cents for a 10.75-ounce can. "What continues to amaze me is that 25 years after his death, Warhol continues to have a profound influence on our culture," said Hermann. "For me, this is a true testament to his genius, and I can only imagine that Andy would have loved shopping at Target for this soup." Campbell Soup Company never commissioned Warhol to paint the original soup cans. Former president and CEO of the company, William Beverly Murphy, initially had reservations about Warhol's work 50 years ago, and Campbell took a "wait and see approach" before fully supporting him. Now, the company takes great pride in its association with the iconic artist. "Thanks to Andy Warhol's inspired paintings, Campbell's soup will always be linked to the Pop art movement," Ed Carolan, vice president and general manager, of Campbell North America stated in a news release to CNN.

"It is only fitting that 50 years later, we celebrate the enduring legacy of these two American icons by coming full circle and bringing his art back to the Campbell's soup cans that provided him with inspiration," noted Hermann. The Campbell's soup labels were produced under license from The Andy Warhol Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation that promotes the visual arts. Some revenue generated from the project will fund the foundation's endowment, from which it distributes grants that support the "creation, presentation and documentation of contemporary visual art," according to Hermann. In addition to the soup cans, Campbell has partnered with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a sponsor of the educational programs associated with an exhibit paying tribute to Warhol. The show, "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," opens September 18. Warhol's piece "Big Campbell's Soup Can, 19¢" is included in the exhibition, along with some of his other famous works. What are your favorite Andy Warhol images? Share your opinions in the comments section below.

POP Art of Andy Warhol Paintings Reproductions Borned on August 6, 1928 - Died on February 22, 1987 Full name is Andrew Varchola, Jr.. Andy Warhol Art in variety of medias of hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, music, and Amiga computers. Who was Andy Warhol? He was a leading artist of pop art that is popular as visual art movement. The relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement was explored in Andy Warhol paintings. The artist was renowned as a commercial illustrator and also was controversial. Warhol Andy is notable as a gay man, in his times the gay liberation movement hasn't started. After graduated from High School in 1945, Warhol Andy enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology in order to gain an art career and finally successfully become a famous commercial illustrator. Andy Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in his sleep in New York City on February 22, 1987. His family dictated almost his entire estate to create a foundation dedicated to the "advancement of the visual arts", according to Andy Warhol will.

The Andy Warhol Museum dedicated to a single artist, it's the largest one of this kinds of galleries in US. Many exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films use the subject of pop art Andy Warhol. Paintings by Andy Warhol are collectible and highly valuable, for example, Eight Elvises is the title of one pop art Warhol on canvas and was sold US$100 million. Works by Andy Warhol include a few paintings that were sold the most expensive in contemporary art history. Acrylic on canvas 205.44 cm × 289.56 cm (80.88 in × 114.00 in) Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 and died on August 5, 1962, she was an American actress, model, and singer. In American culture Monroe was a major sex symbol by starring in successful motion pictures from 1950s to 1960s. After her death, Marilyn Warhol was painted during the weeks. Fifty images of the actress were organized in the Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol, each of them is a publicity photograph from films.

In 2004 The Guardian made a survey of 500 artists and critics, the painting Andy Warhol Monroe was voted as the third most influential artwork of modern art. Photorealistic style was applied to Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol, while the background is perfect and faint colors behind this portrait. The artist used the purest singularity of color on Monroe Andy Warhol in order to achieve emphasis on the images. Crimson lips and faint blue eye shadow were painted, this is the feature of glamorous transvestite showgirl during 1970s. In another piece it looks that the wonderful and brilliant hair is cut and then pasted onto Warhol Marilyn Monroe by using much photorealistic shading, and it appears more false against the rest of the painting. Underneath her hair is earrings shown as silhouettes of pretty pink bows. Her nose, eyes, and lips are shown in Marilyn Monroe Warhol as if they were given equal attention, this make whole painting furiously postmodern. Her teeth are showing a middle-class type of a false smile by gleaming white behind thick lips, as if Warhol Marilyn was painted for a toothpaste advertisement. Some similar qualities can be found on Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn by Andy Warhol could be argued because of the mass media in the POP art weather simultaneously celebrates or criticizes. The artist paint the skin in pink, that is a painful sunburn, Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe recalls an approximation of what the actress looked like, resembling the memory we have of Monroe, but unavoidably bereft of life. Andy Warhol POP Art The origin of Pop Art can be traced back to 1917, Marcel Duchamp asserted that any object could be art if only he intended it as such. But till 1940s after the war II, the term “Pop Art” emerged in UK that suffered great economic hardship. Only several artists independently adopted Pop art as an experimental form, others would later become synonymous with the visual art movement. Andy Warhol become famous as the "Pope of Pop" by using the new pop art style. The popular subjects in art of Andy Warhol could be part of his palette. Cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips are the main images in early Warhol paintings. In April 1961, New York Department's window display a backdrop, in which shows the first Andy Warhol pop art.

Soon all traces of the artist's "hand" in the production of pop art Andy Warhol was removed. The entire series of works by Andy Warhol was popular so that his reputation grew to the point, the artist was thought both the most famous pop art artist and the highest-priced living artist in USA. No Copyright Infringement of Toperfect's script! Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 82 x 66 1/4 inches (208.3 x 168.3 cm) Acquired in Collection of the Mo Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Benjamin J. Tillar Memorial Trust, acquired from the collection of Vernon Nikkel, Clovis, New Mexico Image copyright: ©2001 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York Acrylic on canvas 82 x 66 1/4 inches (208.3 x 168.3 cm) If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.

— Andy Warhol Andy Warhol’s silkscreens and paintings of people, commercial items, and beyond have become icons of life in the twentieth century. The Campbell’s soup cans, photographs of celebrities, and images from newspapers that came to embody the ideas of Pop art all reflect Warhol’s interest in the power, beauty, and banality of popular culture. Within weeks of Marilyn Monroe’s suicide, Warhol began painting pictures of her, producing twenty-two paintings of Marilyn by the end of the year. Warhol chose a publicity photograph of Marilyn from the 1953 movie Niagara and cropped the image to a close-up of her face. The source for Twenty-Five Colored Marilyns is not necessarily Marilyn Monroe herself; it is a reproduction of the publicity photograph. In the Modern’s Twenty-Five Colored Marilyns, Warhol used the silkscreen process, then a popular method of commercial printmaking, to duplicate Marilyn's face. The uneven inking of the image translates her face with different degrees of clarity, and the tilt of the grid gives the piece a handmade quality. Warhol does not give us one Marilyn; he gives us twenty-five.

Perhaps he wants us to consider our obsession with celebrities, or to suggest that more is always better, especially in the case of a celebrity with an already ubiquitous image. As a star created by and for film and photograph-even her stage name had visual and aural appeal-Marilyn Monroe existed as an embodiment of glamour, celebrity, and sex appeal. In creating works with Marilyn Monroe's image as the focus, Warhol asks us to consider how we attempt to embody or avoid these ideas ourselves. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell Street

Question: Who painted Marilyn Monroe and soup cans?
Answer: Andy Warhol