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'Pepper Pot' (FS II.51) is one of the ten flavours featured in Andy Warhol's Campbell’s Soup Cans I portfolio, published in 1968. This portfolio followed Warhol's initial 1962 exhibition, '32...
"Pepper Pot" (FS II.51) is one of the ten flavours featured in Andy Warhol's Campbell’s Soup Cans I portfolio, published in 1968. This portfolio followed Warhol's initial 1962 exhibition, "32 Campbell’s Soup Cans," which premiered at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Using screen printing, Warhol created highly accurate replicas of soup cans, mirroring the real product with remarkable precision. In a manner reminiscent of Duchamp, Warhol questions why an artwork depicting a soup can should be valued differently from an actual can of soup bought at the supermarket. By relocating these objects from their original context, Warhol breathed new life into them, challenging traditional notions of art. Warhol's approach dismantled elitist barriers in art, making it more accessible to the general public. By reappropriating a symbol of everyday American life, he challenged highbrow art standards and elevated the mundane soup can to the status of ‘high art.’ Through this commentary on commodities, Warhol suggested that art itself could be just as much a commodity as a can of soup.