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Artist:Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). Title:Campbell’s Soup Cans (detail).Date:(1962). Medium:Synthetic polymer paint on 32 canvases, each 20 × 16″ (50.8 × 40.6 cm).Classification:Screen Printing.  Culture:North-American.  Period:Pop Art. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Partial gift of Irving Blum. funding provided by Nelson A. Rockefeller. Campbell Soup Art, What Is Pop Art, Campbell's Soup Cans, Pop Art Vintage, Can Of Soup, Pop Art Artists, Pop Art Movement, Jeff Koons, Campbell Soup

Exhibition. Apr 25–Oct 18, 2015. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans is the signature work in the artist’s career and a landmark in MoMA’s collection. The 1962 series of 32 paintings is the centerpiece in this focused collection exhibition of Warhol’s work during the crucial years between 1953 and 1967. The Soup Cans mark a breakthrough for Warhol, when he began to apply his seminal strategies of serial repetition and reproduction to key subjects derived from American commodity culture…

Change in attitude: By 1964, Campbell's realised the paintings were becoming a phenomenon and the company marketing manager even sent a letter of admiration to Warhol Andy Warhol Soup Cans, Andy Warhol Poster, Warhol Paintings, Art Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol Inspired, Andy Warhol Pop Art, ポップアート ポスター, Andy Warhol Art

The Campbell Soup Co.'s embrace of Warhol's iconic imagery is a switch from its initial reaction, when the company considered taking legal action before deciding to see how the paintings were received by the public.

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