Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup I Pepper Pot (F & S II.51) For Sale

Pepper Pot (FS II.51) is one of ten flavours of soup cans screenprints, from Campbell’s Soup Cans I, published in 1968. This portfolio was created six years after his inaugural 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibition, debuted at the Ferus gallery in Los Angeles in 1962. Warhol continued to return to the now iconic Campbells soup can through out his career, with another second portfolio of a further 10 screenprints titled Campbell’s soup cans II in 1969. Warhol utilised his talents in screen printing to create the closest possible replica of a soup can to the real thing.

The Soup can series is a reflection of Warhol’s deep obsession and fascination with American consumer culture. He saw commodities, such as a Pepper Pot soup can, as a modern miracle. He is quoted saying: “You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A coke is a coke, and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good.” He was obsessed with notions of consumerism and commodification and turned to make art that explored this. In a rather Duchampian way, he provokes a question – why is this depiction of a soup can any different or more valuable to a can of soup you could buy in the supermarket? Warhol showed that by separating an object from its original environment, the subject takes on a new life and meaning in its new context.

This shows Warhol’s ability to take down the elitist barriers of art historical understanding. What better way to make art that is approachable to the modern American masses by reappropriating a symbol of mass American life. He is poking fun at the highbrow standards of the art market, transforming the meagre soup can into a form of ‘high art’. He is making a commentary on commodities, suggesting a piece of art is just somewhat as much of a commodity as a soup can.

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