Campbell's+Soup

=What Is Your Favorite Food?=


 * Andy Warhol Quote:** “I used to drink it [Campbell’s Soup]. I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.”
 * Andy Warhol **

Discussion Questions:


 * 1) What would you love to eat every day for 20 years?
 * 2) What would be torture for you to eat every day?
 * 3) Does repetition affect your taste for something? Explain you answer.
 * 4) When an artist repeats an image over and over again, what effect does it have on the viewer?
 * 5) Why do you think Andy Warhol made so many Campbell’s Soup Can paintings?

Points of View:


The Campbell's Soup Can series makes me laugh. In this particular piece I want to know whom the brat was that ripped the label. The simplicity of Warhol's work frustrates me. The Campbell's Soup Can painting conjures up the same emotions as a paper clip or a post-it note: "Why didn't I think of that?" Lifting a soup can up to the level of art doesn't put Warhol in league with Raphael, but it does show some Thomas Edison-style ingenuity. The Campbell's series confirms that if Warhol had but one virtue it was awareness. We are all bombarded by popular culture and Warhol was able to recognize that overwhelming influence. He took a soup can, an image recognized by all, and elevated it to the level of art. I'd call him the All-American artist because he made his medium accessible to people of every class and race. The bright color and provocatively bland subject of the Campbell’s series make room for disagreement among the College educated as much as high school dropouts.Tom Laskow, CAPA High School student, Youth Label Project, Youth Invasion, The Andy Warhol Museum, 2004. 

Soup as the humble meal celebrated by Daumier; soup as the melting pot in an increasingly homogenized America; soup as transition from homemade to pre-prepared item; soup as "good" or "bad" taste, both on the tongue, and as advertising design. Peeling back the label to reveal a generic shape of the machine age generates food for thought: who tracked its route down the assembly line? Who are the taste makers who determined the flavors of its contents, defining good and bad in terms of sales potential? What were the mechanisms involved in its delivery? Why would Warhol claim that he ate it every day?Pamela Allara, professor of art, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, quote from Point of View Label Project, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 1999.


 * Popular Israeli Foods, Snacks and Drinks**

Discussion Question : Which foods and food brands are popular in our culture?



Bamba is a popular Israeli snack and food icon because children grow up eating Bamba.

Create your own pop art image with a popular Israeli food or drink.

Click here to create a pop art poster.

This lesson is taken from the site: //The Andy Warhol Museum// © 2013 The Andy Warhol Museum