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Thursday, December 24, 2009


Any time you visit the art museum, you are likely to stumble upon the picture of the Campbell’s soup can created by Andy Warhol. It is bright, obnoxious, and probably one of the odder pieces in the museum. The series of pictures is prominently placed in the one of the main rooms in the museum. This piece really caught my eye because of the bright pinks and greens that are used in the piece and the fact that it’s a painting of a soup can. Andy Warhol created a series of these soup cans in their traditional colors and made one for every different type of soup that Campbell’s made. He eventually made many different pictures of the soup cans substituting the traditional colors for brighter colors. One observation that Warhol made about America was that "America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke too."

1 comment:

  1. Greg, In the short time that I knew you, you were a man of few words, though I always knew you had a lot to say. Reading your writing confirms my belief in your great depth of understanding. It really is ok to be bright!

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